"Love your country, but never trust its government."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Country Quotes #Love You Quotes #Government Quotes

“I play every game to win, it is not in my nature to throw a game.”
“Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only exchange one set of restrictions for another. The second set, however, is self-chosen, and therefore easier to accept.”
“I want to reconcile myself with heaven,I want to love, I want to pray,I want to believe in good.”

Source : "The Demon". Poem by Mikhail Lermontov, 1830.
“We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.”
“Two can live as cheaply as one--if one doesn't eat the other goes naked.”
“I wanted to clear up the slum of legsâ€¦ I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.”

Source : Eero Saarinen (1962). “Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect”, New Haven : Yale University Press
“You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does much the same thing with a prototype. I felt like a mother - always proud. It is a special feeling, as if you were awarded with a special award. I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.”
“My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!”

Source : A Few Figs from Thistles "First Fig" l. 1 (1920)

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