"The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr."

-- Anne Boleyn

#Kings Quotes #Queens Quotes #Simple Quotes

“Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent.”
“Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things arenâ€™t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.”
“I apologize for my terrible interview skills.”
“The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.”
“Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are not its beneficiaries, and there is no theoretical obstacle to the transformation of this statement into its opposite.”

Source : Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.19, A&C Black
“I had lied so much lately that I was honestly surprised my pants weren't literally made of fire.”
“I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.”
“The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter.”

Source : "An Atlas of Upward Mobility Shows Paths Out of Poverty" by David Leonhardt, Amanda Cox and Claire Cain Miller, www.nytimes.com. May 4, 2015.

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