"I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about"

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Source : Edward Bloor (2007). “Taken”, p.170, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Edward Bloor

#Dream Quotes #Real Quotes #Night Quotes

“Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.”
“I love my jazz hands!”
“Happiness inspires productivity.”
“All the money was spent for the 'Concept Plan' document, which made reasonable recommendations for developments. Now that's kind of being forgotten. That's why I think the public trust is being betrayed.”
“New York is full of people . . . with a feeling for the tangential adventure, the risky adventure, the interlude that's not likely to end in any double-ring ceremony.”
“Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science which have been by slow degrees vouchsafed to man, and are still granted in these latter times by the Differential Calculus, now superseded by the Higher Algebra, all of which must have existed in that sublimely omniscient Mind from eternity.”

Source : Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville (2001). “Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind”, p.180, Cambridge University Press
“All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass of the people ... turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the Government ... Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.”
“Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.”

Source : "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics". Book by John Mearsheimer, 2001.

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