"By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness."

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Source : "Speech to the National Convention". February 05, 1794.

Maximilien Robespierre

#Blood Quotes #May Quotes #Dawn Quotes

“Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action”

Source : Brendan Brazier (2007). “The Thrive Diet, 10th Anniversary Edition: The Plant-Based Whole Foods Way to Staying Healthy for Life”, p.37, Penguin Canada
“There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.”
“What does it mean, being a woman?”
“Coincidence. That's an explanation used by fools and liars.”
“The great thing about Europe is that things have not been represented [as much]. If you open the door of a bar in Brooklyn in a film you know exactly who is the mobster, who is the nice guy, who is the drunk, who's the waitress, who's the lonely heart. If you push open the door to a bar in Antwerp or Lisbon or Rotterdam, people will talk five different languages. You don't know who's who. You don't know if that guy is a banker or a mobster.”
“We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.”
“I just love dressing up in everything a man is supposed not to be, in all that vulnerability, sweetness, preciousness and impracticality.”

Source : "Top of the pots". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.
“There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.”

Source : "Great Thought". "The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler" (1976) by Raymond Chandler, February 19, 1938.

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