"A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible."

-- Abigail Adams

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“I was trying to fit in for so long, until about Junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy,”
“For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.”
“The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be.”
“There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.”
“There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.”

Source : "'I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old'". Interview with Jessica Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2002.
“Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.”
“There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?”
“Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.”

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