"Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child."

-- Novalis

#Children Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Earth Quotes

“He loves me, and I reward his love by forcing on him something he hates. In the evening, after we dance, he rarely returns to the throne; he dances with others or moves from place to place through the room. The court thinks he is trying to be gracious, sharing his attention. Only I see that he moves always to the empty spot and the court always moves after him. He is like a dog trying to escape his own tail. He indulged himself in one brief moment of privacy, and almost died of it. Relius, he hates being king.”
“My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.”
“Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition.”
“I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnutsâ€‰â€”â€‰just as I would have if I had made more close friends.”
“When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.”
“New York is beautiful, but [the South] makes it look like a wasteland.”
“Issues are important, yes, but issues come and go. America as an ideal is timeless.”
“I think astrology is annoying bullshit-which is so Libra of me”

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