"The terrible poetry of human nudity, I understand it at last, I who tremble for the first time in trying to read it with blasÃ© eyes."

-- Rachilde

#Eye Quotes #Trying Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nationâ€™s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.”
“Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them reassure us about what a human being is capable of, as we survive our own lives every day, our own mysterious journeys.”
“Most goat-related military activity is still highly classified.”
“Before you organize you ought to analyze and see what the elements of the business are.”
“In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.”
“A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.”
“This is why I shall not tell you in this story about all the days when nothing happened. You will not catch me saying, 'thus the sad days passed slowly by'--or 'the years rolled on their weary course'--or 'time went on'--because it is silly; of course time goes on--whether you say so or not. So I shall just tell you the nice, interesting parts--and in between you will understand that we had our meals and got up and went to bed, and dull things like that.”

Source : E. Nesbit (2004). “The Railway Children”, p.334, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
“The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth.”

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