"The Spain of today looks at the Second Republic with great appreciation and above all with satisfaction and pride for what we have been able to do in this constitutional age"."

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Source : Congress of Deputies, May 01, 2006.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#Appreciation Quotes #Pride Quotes #Age Quotes

“Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.”

Source : Richard Wilbur, William Butts (1990). “Conversations with Richard Wilbur”, p.109, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.”
“Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.”
“Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude”
“So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.”
“While I hear from readers all the time that they love learning new things, I never want to do an "info-dump." Boring! I try to include enticing details and skip all the rest.”
“When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.”
“They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Mar 02, 2011

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