"A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter."

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Source : "Fictional character: Colonel Franz Von Waldheim". "The Train", www.imdb.com. 1964.

Paul Scofield

#Book Quotes #Appreciate Quotes #Cash Quotes

“If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters”
“I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things.”
“We go to the mountain for enlightenment, for self-realization, for adventure, for discovery. It's pregnant with meaning. When people see a mountain, they invest it with meaning. Not plot. Not character.”
“Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.”
“I know that God exists. I know that I have never invented anything. I have been a medium by which these things were given to the culture as fast as the culture could earn them. I give all the credit to God.”
“The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart.”

Source : "Christ's Tears over Jerusalem". Book by Thomas Nashe, 1593.
“Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.”
“travel is compost for the mind”

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