"I was always lucky in my bad luck."

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Source : Bohumil Hrabal (2007). “I Served the King of England (New Directions Classic)”, p.83, New Directions Publishing

Bohumil Hrabal

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“Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.”
“If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.”

Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
“If you want to go quickly, go by yourself - if you want to go farther, go in a group.”
“TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference.”
“There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.”
“One of the things that helped me a lot as I was starting out in my career was that I got myself to France and Europe and California, and spent time immersing myself in those culinary traditions. I'd encourage future chefs to dive into whatever culture most excites them, and that they want to cook.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that sheâ€™d rather die than go back to a man she didnâ€™t love.”

Source : Brenna Yovanoff (2012). “Smoulder”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
“I consider it my duty to acknowledge God. To take down the Ten Commandments and to stop holding prayer would be a violation of that duty. I will not take down the Ten Commandments and I will not stop holding prayer.”

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