"I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil."

-- Benjamin Franklin

#Country Quotes #Jealous Quotes #Rights Quotes

“As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.”

Source : Isaac Barrow, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “Works”, p.247
“Salads was a big indicator of that - there was a huge market out there for it. And why not tap it? Some of the things we are doing now around the globe are responding to customers. It's not because some guy sued you.”
“I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful, wonderful animal pictures. All through the years he's given me copies of these pictures. Well, I have all these gorgeous ones, so I said, 'Tad, I want to do a book with your picture on one side.'”
“Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?”
“Some people give gifts in order to bewilder, confuse, and manipulate their recipients.”
“I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience”

Source : Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”
“First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.”
“My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the position I take.”

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