"The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries."

-- Natan Sharansky

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.”
“Whenever I tour my district and I ask small businesspeople 'what can I do to help?,' they tell me to just get government out of the way and they'll create the jobs and grow on their own.”
“Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.”
“I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account.”
“Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.”

Source : Jessie Burton (2014). “The Miniaturist”, p.111, Pan Macmillan
“What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.”
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”
“By bravely enduring our trials, we learn humility, compassion for others, and a great reliance on God. We also learn that our happiness and progress depend much less upon what challenges life may bring and infinitely more on how we face and overcome those challenges.”

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