"If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly."

-- Iris Chang

#Acceptance Quotes #Political Quotes #Ugly Quotes

“The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.”
“The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer”

Source : Aaron Betsky, Erik Adigard (2000). “Architecture must burn”, Gingko Pr Inc
“Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.”

Source : David Quammen (1996). “The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions”, Vintage
“The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!”
“A real fighter never cries, never lets the weight of any blow bring him down. Except that final blow, the inevitable one, but even then they always go out like men.”

Source : J. A. Redmerski, J. Lynn, Jay Crownover (2013). “The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1”, p.72, HarperCollins UK
“We needed to find some options for moving to neutral ground. I was tasked with doing that.”
“Take me someplace where we can be silent together.”
“Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.”

Source : Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.342, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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