"An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war."

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Baron de Montesquieu

#Peace Quotes #War Quotes #Empires Quotes

“Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.”
“If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.”
“...Bin Laden's quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: "When you meet the unbelievers, strike them in the neck." "If you do not go out and fight, God will punish you severely and put others in your place." "Wherever you find the polytheists, kill them, seize them, besiege them, ambush them." "You who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends; they are allies only to each other. Anyone who takes them as an ally becomes one of them.”
“The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.”
“You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.”
“I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.”

Source : "Neverness". Book by David Zindell, 1988.
“Am I learning how to use my Bible? The way to become complete for the Masterâ€™s service is to be well soaked in the Bible; some of us only exploit certain passages. Our Lord wants to give us continuous instruction out of His word; continuous instruction turns hearers into disciples.”
“Little brothers are the buck privates of life!”

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