"All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly sinking into contempt. In every country in which a strong political life is manifested, the secularisation of politics is the consequence. Each stage of that movement has been initiated and effected by those who are most indifferent to dogmatic theology, and each has been opposed by those who are most occupied with theology."

-- William Edward Hartpole Lecky

#Country Quotes #Strong Quotes #Europe Quotes

“You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.”
“In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.”

Source : John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”
“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”

Source : Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.33, Macmillan
“The only way to see the path in the wind is to become the wind itself.”

Source : Leza Lowitz, Shogo Oketani (2013). “Jet Black and the Ninja Wind”, p.69, Tuttle Publishing
“A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected.”

Source : Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.151, Penguin
“The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.”
“To really know what progress weâ€™re making for children, we have to know how many children we have to begin with. The simple act of counting is an expression of a countryâ€™s intent to take care of its people.”

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