"In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions."

-- Catherine the Great

#Conjecture Quotes #Conjunctions Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.”
“I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.”
“How is it possible to have a civil war?”
“I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.”

Source : "Alone on the Hill". Interview With Bill Hogan, www.motherjones.com. September 20, 2001.
“And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, the 'Lord of Phosphorus,' and Lucifer, or 'Light-Bearer,' is in us: it is our Mind”

Source : H. P. Blavatsky (2011). “The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy”, p.513, Cambridge University Press
“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
“We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness, the advances made in the last hundred years have been far more significant than the space program, nuclear fission, or even The Wire, for so many fortunate people.”

Source : Rob Delaney (2013). “Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.”, p.35, Hachette UK
“Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son who need not leave his mother at the threshold of the world's activities, but may always and everywhere have her blessing and her help. Thrice blessed are the son and the mother between whom there exists an association not only physical and affectional, but spiritual and intellectual, and broad and wise as is the scope of each being.”

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