"Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society."

-- Hendrik Willem van Loon

#Civilization Quotes #Sacred Quotes #Portal Quotes

“Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!”
“A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.”
“The people we've known the longest are often the people we know the least.”
“Danbury wasn't a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine.”

Source : "Fictional character: George Jung". "Blow", 2001.
“Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.”
“The assassination at Sarajevo was certainly the crucial precedent of the European war that its conspirators had sought, but was not the historical cause ... The assassination acted as a lever, prying the various powers into predictable paths.”
“In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some sacred entity to which the bourgeois should pay homage. This all sounds absurd. But for Russians it is completely normal.”
“Attitude makes the woman, darling!”

Source : Source: wwd.com

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