"If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard."

-- Ernest Shackleton

#Class Quotes #Alcohol Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Iâ€™ve learned that if you canâ€™t get it all together to accomplish this thing called peace, you do at least your part in your life, because thatâ€™s where you can truly make an immediate difference.”
“As a people, our most cherished and valuable achievements are the achievements of spirit. With an Afrocentric spirit, all things can be made to happen; it is the source of genuine revolutionary commitment.”
“In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.”

Source : Dispatch, in cipher, to the English Ambassador at the Hague, 31 January 1826, in Sir Harry Poland 'Mr Canning's Rhyming 'Dispatch' to Sir Charles Bagot' (1905)
“I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them”
“How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged.”
“It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to study, in sturdy defiance of the male elders of the family, who protested and decided that I should be married off instead.”
“I was like a trashcan. I took everything.”
“I remember being a teenager and having a boyfriend - this guy I thought I was way better than, and completely out of his league. He was a year younger than me. And he broke up with me. It was so shocking, and I couldn't believe it.”

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