"It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other."

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Source : "Madalyn Aslan's Jupiter Signs: How to Improve Your Luck, Career, Health, Finances, Appearance, and Relationships Through the New Astrology". Book by Madalyn Aslan, 2003.

Petrarch

#Merit Quotes #Thrones Quotes #Fortune Quotes

“sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!”
“I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.”
“It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.”

Source : "Queen's Brian May Rocks Out To Physics, Photography". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 3, 2010.
“We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.”
“Iâ€™m not afraid of the darkness outside. Itâ€™s the darkness inside houses I donâ€™t like.”
“I didn't really work with Vin on it except we talked about it a little bit. I think it was kind of cool because we didn't think it was going to be that emotional. I don't think Vin knew I was going to be that emotional.”
“For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.”
“If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!”

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