"When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe..."

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Ariel Durant

#Order Quotes #Knighthood Quotes #Chivalry Quotes

“Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.”
“Rule Number One is this: If youâ€™re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if youâ€™re defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to the tickles, the nudges, the cluesâ€”boom! Sledgehammer.”

Source : Gay Hendricks, Tinker Lindsay (2012). “The First Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery”, p.7, Hay House, Inc
“How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.”
“Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow.”
“We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist”
“Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior and intentions. It is the means by which Russians and Americans can come to understand each others' aspirations for peace and how the satisfactions of everyday life may be achieved.....”
“I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.”

Source : David Harsanyi (2015). “David Harsanyi: Volume I”, p.2, Creators Publishing
“It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?”

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