"There are things a man must not do even to save a nation."

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Source : Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

Murray Kempton

#Men Quotes #Patriotism Quotes

“Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?”
“It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.”

Source : John William De Forest (1859). “Seacliff; Or, The Mystery of the Westervelts”, p.41
“There are no limits to what science can explore. The man of the future will be dedicated to individualism. To be in contact with scientists, to become in a small way a scientist myself if possible, perhaps to cast new light on physical phenomena, to be able to uncover what is real and definitive, was my life's great dream.”

Source : "The Solvay Councils and the Birth of Modern Physics" by Pierre Marage, Grégoire Wallenborn, Birkhäuser Verlag, 1999.
“On Iâ€™ll pass, dragging my huge love behind me. On what feverish night, deliria-ridden, by what Goliaths was I begot â€“ I, so big and by no one needed?”
“O love, please give me a passionate red recycling bin. I will put my desire in it. I don't ever want to throw love away.”
“I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.”

Source : Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com. August 1, 2008.
“Jasper chuckled, shaking his head. " You truly are one frightening little monster.”
“I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.”

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