"When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty."

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Source : 'To Althea, From Prison'

Richard Lovelace

#Grief Quotes #Wine Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show youre a great performer.”
“It will not be possible to rule out the supposition that the process of evolution may be guided by an intelligent design.”

Source : "Humanism: Philosophical Essays". Book by F. C. S. Schiller, June 1903.
“Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.”
“Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficultâ€”to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.”
“I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.”
“True beauty cannot fail to move the beholder”
“So long as millions of human beings in every country has to sell their labour-power to a small minority of owners, and to sink into the most wretched misery if they could find no buyers, the so called â€œequality before the lawâ€ remains a pious fraud, since the laws are made by those who find themselves in possession of the social wealth. But in the same way there can also be no talk of a â€œright over one's own person,â€ for that right ends when one is compelled to submit to the economic dictation of another if he does not want to starve.”
“When people are filled to the brim with love, they are their most beautiful.”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Lucia, Lucia: A Novel”, p.117, Random House

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