"Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as true today as it was ten thousand years ago that a Power from which the magic virtue has gone out, falls."

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Source : Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”

Bertrand de Jouvenel

#Fall Quotes #Years Quotes #Magic Quotes

“Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.”
“There is no alarm clock like embarrassment,”

Source : Maryrose Wood (2010). “The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling”, p.3, Harper Collins
“Maybe there are some traditional things, but they are more about the way the West packages the East.”
“I've already had to wait so long." "How long?" Luce asked. "Not so long that I've forgotten that you're worth everything. Every sacrifice. Every pain.”
“Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her.”
“Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.”
“My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.”
“If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.”

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