"It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold."

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Source : Baron Bertrand de Jouvenel, Bertrand De Jouvenel (2010). “The Ethics of Redistribution”, p.67, Cambridge University Press

Bertrand de Jouvenel

#Dark Quotes #Age Quotes #Flight Quotes

“When I'm in good form there are chances that rivals will worry more about you more than you about them.”
“China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.”
“It's always fun when you don't have to trot your stuff out, especially as a young guy.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“We have within us, a power that is greater than anything we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every obstacle in our life and set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous, in a new light, and in a new life.”

Source : Ernest Holmes (2007). “Creative Mind”, p.25, Lulu.com
“You have to be talented and you have to be lucky. Record companies are not signing classic rock groups anymore.”
“Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse.”
“The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.”

Source : "Kevin Ayers: 'I never considered another profession' - one of his final interviews". Interview with Kate Mossman, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2013.
“As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.”

Source : Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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