"A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages."

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Source : Hugo Grotius (1814). “The Rights of War and Peace: Including the Law of Nature and of Nations”, p.28

Hugo Grotius

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“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
“Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.”
“I am content to fill a little space if God be glorified.”
“I make my pictures for people, not for critics.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.”
“We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash.”
“My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time.”
“Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.”

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