"Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread."

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Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing

Jennifer Donnelly

#Kings Quotes #Nice Quotes #Greed Quotes

“Those are brave men... lets go kill them”
“My concern is not that there are too many sweatshops, but that there are too few.”
“I in my own house am an emperor, And will defend what's mine.”

Source : Philip Massinger, Colin Gibson (1978). “The Selected Plays of Philip Massinger: The Duke of Milan, The Roman Actor, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The City Madam”, p.109, CUP Archive
“I always talk about my ambition with music, and it's to sort of seduce people into listening to sounds they wouldn't normally listen to or want to hear.”

Source : Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2006.
“But dreams full oft are found of real events The form and shadows.”

Source : Joanna Baillie (1821). “The election. Ethwald. The second marriage”, p.153
“I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of time really trying to systematically tackle problems from different angles.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Is this the reality you wanted?!”
“When a soul has advanced so far on the spiritual road as to be lost to all the natural methods of communing with God; when it seeks Him no longer by meditation, images, impressions, nor by any other created ways, or representations of sense, but only by rising above them all, in the joyful communion with Him by faith and love, then it may be said to have found God of a truth, because it has truly lost itself as to all that is not God, and also as to its own self.”

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