"I care not who controls a nation's political affairs, so long as I control her currency"

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Mayer Amschel Rothschild

#Long Quotes #Political Quotes #Care Quotes

“The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.”
“Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.”
“... men... who say that there is no one in our times and in our midst who is able to keep the Gospel commandments and become like the holy Fathers? To them the Master rightly says with a loud voice, 'Woe to you scribes and Pharisees (Mt. 23:13)! Woe to you, blind guides of the blind (Mt. 23:16), because you do not enter into the kingdom, and you hinder those who wish to enter' (Mt. 23:13).”

Source : Saint Symeon (the New Theologian) (1980). “Symeon New Theologian”, p.312, Paulist Press
“You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither skill nor daring. It is not a trial of souls, not the measure of wills. Even less is it a tool, a means to some womanish end. It is merely the place where the iron bones of the earth meet the hollow bones of men and break them.”

Source : R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.369, The Overlook Press
“Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.”
“A goat's a goat. Whether you sautÃ© or barbeque it, it's still a goat.”
“I'm a big people-watcher. I love it. But I feel bad about it, because I always get caught!”
“Be patient with yourself. Be gentle with yourself. Know that all things are working in your favor. If you take one step toward the light of Spirit, Spirit will take five steps on your behalf.”

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