"We need to return to the cosmopolitanism of Alexandria of yore, and marry that with the tolerance and democracy of Europe today"

-- Ismail Serageldin

#Europe Quotes #Tolerance Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.”
“Keep quiet and say one's prayers-certainly not merely the best, but the only things to do if one would be truly happy; but, ashamed of asking when I have received so much, the only form of prayer I would use would be a form of thanksgiving.”

Source : Elizabeth von Arnim (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)”, p.164, Delphi Classics
“Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.”
“I went through phases of odd hairstyles and tank top-over-tee outfits and stuff like that.”
“For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war!”
“I went to the actual SVU precinct... and got a really good sense of what it was like.”
“Deism is compatible with evolutionary theory.”
“The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.”

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