"Herr Altenburg, I can't; I have vertigo.' And Marek looked at him: 'All right - I'll get the chemist to fix me something."

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Source : Eva Ibbotson (2008). “A Song for Summer”, p.178, Pan Macmillan

Eva Ibbotson

#Vertigo Quotes #Chemist Quotes

“I'm not surprised that people are unsettled because of war. The enemy has got a powerful tool, and that is to get on your TV screen by killing innocent people. And my job is to continue to remind the people it's worth it, we're not going to retreat hastily, and we're not going to pull out of there before the job is done. And we have got a plan for victory.”
“What is the meaning of Initiation?Â It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!”
“Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.”
“Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites ... [Whose] ties cut across national boundaries ...It is likely that before long the social elites of most of the more advanced countries will be highly internationalist or globalist in spirit and outlook ... The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty... Further progress will require greater American sacrifices. More intensive efforts to shape a new world monetary structure will have to be undertaken, with some consequent risk to the present relatively favorable American position.”
“Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me.”

Source : "Instagram's Kevin Systrom: The Stanford Billionaire Machine Strikes Again". Interview with Steven Bertoni, www.forbes.com. August 1, 2012.
“For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .”
“Could've come like a mighty storm. With all the strength of a hurricane. You could've come like a forest fire with the power of Heaven in Your flame. But You came like a winter snow, quiet and soft and slow. Falling from the sky in the night to the earth below.”

Source : Song: Winter Snow, Album: Glory In The Highest: Christmas Songs Of Worship, 2009
“I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.”

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