"The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace."

-- Thomas More

#Peace Quotes #Delight Quotes #Chivalry Quotes

“The German health care system is unique in its attempt to combine competition among sickness funds on the one hand and a universal coverage plan on the other hand. Most health care systems are either one or the other, so you either have private insurance and competition but not everyone is covered for everything, or you have a single-payer system. So the ideal types are like the American system on the one hand or the Scandinavian or U.K. systems on the other end. Germany tries to combine the advantages.”

Source : "Frontline", www.pbs.org. October 25, 2007.
“Just as you did not come to Christ on your own, neither will you remain in Christ on your own.”
“The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.”
“If it's not there in fashion, fantasize it,”
“The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay was, in fact, a very long poem in "heroic couplets". If something is called an essay, it should be an essay.”
“He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel more ferocious, and more intelligent. He had to become all these things, else he would not have held his own nor survived the hostile environment in which he found himself.”
“Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.”
“I never confuse the cost of something with its value”

Source : Robin Hobb (2014). “The Liveship Traders Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Ship of Magic, Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny”, p.1424, Del Rey

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