"I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky."

-- Haile Gebrselassie

#Sky Quotes #Work Out Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than by virtue: The worst men always conspiring against them, they must fall, if the best have not power to preserve them. . . . [and] unless they be preserved in a great measure free from vices . . . .”
“The thought, the deadly thought of solitude.”
“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.”
“Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.”
“Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.”

Source : Alfred Bertram Guthrie (1993). “The Blue Hen's Chick: An Autobiography”, p.177, U of Nebraska Press
“The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.”
“Fifteen years ago, nobody thought that content would ever work as a business. It was impossible to raise any money, initial investments were $10,000, seldom $100,000. It is only over the last two or three years that we have started to see very large amounts of capital coming into the digital industry. That has created a lot more competition.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.”

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