"What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue."

-- Thomas Paine

#Names Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Plunder Quotes

“Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.”
“Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.”
“Nothing will ever take away the power and resolve and fearlessness of the great city of Boston. We will get through this. It will take time. But we will get through this.”
“thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.”
“I took some voice lessons here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I started taking it more seriously when I was in Miss Saigon. I needed to improve my technique in order to survive doing that show as many time a week as I was doing it. It's not an easy show to sing, so I needed all the help I could get.”
“Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.”

Source : Mary Balogh (2010). “A Secret Affair”, p.326, Delacorte Press
“This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.”
“Humiliation scars deeper than the lash.”

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