"Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it."

-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Degrees Quotes #Literature Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“I have a huge issue with blackface.”
“Life is a sexy little dance and I like to take the lead.”
“Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.”
“The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we seek to condemn and punish, have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that power has ever paid to reason.”

Source : Opening statement for the prosecution before International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany, 21 Nov. 1945
“Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners.”
“Love should not be a guessing game. In fact, it shouldn't be a game at all. One should lay all the cards on the table, and be honest with intentions and feelings. And while some may hide and bluff with their cards, the true winners are those that lay their cards down honestly and find what they are looking for because of it.”
“Democracy fascinates me.”
“If you don't want your dog to have bad breath, do what I do: Pour a little Lavoris in the toilet.”

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