"As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people, that is enough for me. Saving Greece from this crisis was the first thing on the agenda. We are now on a much more normalised road."

-- George Papandreou

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“The dose makes the poison.”
“It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”

Source : Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”
“I am pretty bow-legged. It's annoying.”
“I think people just love to win.”
“I enjoy helping young children succeed.”
“The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.”
“If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris, (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]”
“This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage . . . What about our own roots? . . . I am up against the system, the whole method and approach of a system of education which makes us morons, cultural morons, but efficient clerks for all your business and administration offices.”

Source : R. K. Narayan (2012). “The English Teacher”, p.328, Vintage

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