"I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old."

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Source : Speech in House of Commons, 12 Dec. 1826

George Canning

#History Quotes #Balance Quotes #World Quotes

“I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.”
“When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.”
“That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.”

Source : Paul Cézanne, Alberto Giacometti, Felix Andreas Baumann, Poul Erik Tøjner, Tobia Bezzola (2008). “Cézanne & Giacometti: paths of doubt”, Hatje Cantz Pub
“Perpetually is the servant either the recipient of a blessing from Allaah, in which case he is need of gratitude; or he is the perpetrator of sin, in which case he is in need of repentance; he is always moving from one blessing to another and is always is in need of repentance.”
“History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.”
“Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service.”
“No thought lives in your head rent-free. Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost.”
“The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.”

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