"Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die."

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Source : Giuseppe Mazzini (1864). “Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini”

Giuseppe Mazzini

#Civilization Quotes #Individual Quotes

“I'm breathing . . . are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it?”

Source : Robert Bolt (2013). “A Man For All Seasons”, p.105, A&C Black
“You can't replace a tree anyway. Like people, you don't know how big they were till they're gone.”

Source : George Ella Lyon (2010). “Borrowed Children”, p.82, University Press of Kentucky
“I don't see why Christians should censor themselves out of any forum in which our perspectives can be heard. I disagree with the theology of many groups that I address; Jews, for example, who do not accept Jesus, or atheists.”
“Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts.”
“It is the story that matters not just the ending.”
“I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.”
“Iâ€™d like to have the flying car, I think thatâ€™d be really cool.”
“One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits. In fact, I insist on it. A letter is like a poem, it leaps into life and shows very clearly the marks, perhaps I should say thumbprints, of an unwilling or unready composer.”

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