"Better to die on your feet than live on your knees."

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Source : Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.135, Penguin

Aeschylus

#Feet Quotes #Knees Quotes #Progressive Quotes

“Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.”

Source : Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.72, Simon and Schuster
“Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we're doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change”
“You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my house. I really enjoy it; it's my ritual. I require tidiness, actually. I have to have everything spotless before I can relax.”
“It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped, if we do not ourselves worship him.”
“A real girl isn't perfect and a perfect girl isn't real.”
“If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.”
“But I don't know, maybe it's just as well I never got there. I dreamed about it for so many years. I used to go to English movies just to look at the streets. I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for. I said I'd go looking for the England of English Literature, and he nodded and said: "It's there.”
“It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.”

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