"Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them."

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George MacDonald

#Listening Quotes #Stories Quotes #Delight Quotes

“If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing.”
“I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington; they would not wait for an election....It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States!”
“Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation in judgment. For sound sense implies all powers uniting; none too prominent, so as to tyrannize; none too small, so as to be overborne.”
“Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.”

Source : Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.84, Cornell University Press
“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
“To venture into space we must be strong-willed and determined. We must be fully committed to its exploration and discovery; space permits no half measures and is unforgiving of mistakes.”
“install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.”
“Your crew is featherweight, my gunshots will make you levitate”

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