"The Revolution has grown cold; all its principles are weakened; there remains only red caps worn by intriguers. The exercise of terror has made crime blasÃ©, as strong liquors made the palace blasÃ©."

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Source : Speech fragment, 1794.

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

#Strong Quotes #Exercise Quotes #Principles Quotes

“Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.”
“You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.”

Source : Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books
“Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.”
“I don't want to see an experiment. Experiment at home - when you show up on stage, I want to see a result. I think a lot of improvisers, you'll see them some nights and they just stink, and they go, "Well, we're just improvising." Like that's a license to have a shitty night!”
“Americans have the mistaken viewpoint that Lady Liberty is only a peacetime luxury who is ill-equipped to fight the nasties. Therefore, they reason, we need an equally nasty Big Brother. Americans have forgotten that Lady Liberty is one ferocious mother when protecting her children.”
“The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.”
“In fact living is dying.”
“Is there something inside of you that is favoring peace? Because if there is, then congratulations: you are a human being. You have just reached, and felt, your most fundamental want.”

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