"If one can't be happy, one must be amused...."

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Source : Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Nancy Mitford

#Motivational Quotes #Thought Provoking Quotes #Provoking Quotes

“I'm an easy target because of my political opinions.”
“A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.”
“Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from a right versus left, religious conservatives versus secular liberal, believer versus atheist, binary. Too often, we just look at religion in America through that kind of either/or lens. I think it's much more complicated than that.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.”
“My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.”

Source : Walter Kohn, Matthias Scheffler, Peter Weinberger (2003). “Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators”, p.295, Springer Science & Business Media
“One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.”
“There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting a salary that ultimately is paid by a generation of young people going deeply into debt for their education.”
“Small crimes always precedes great ones.”

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