"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

-- Voltaire

#Country Quotes #Uprising Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them.”
“It is requisite that we should here say something of Magick, which is so linked to Astrology, as being her near Kinswoman, that whoever professes Magick without Astrology, does nothing, but is altogether out of the way.”

Source : Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1676). “The Vanity of Arts and Sciences”, p.109
“Tony Gonzalez is one of the best ever and changed the way tight ends have transitioned themselves from college to the NFL. He can do a little bit of everything. He's a guy who you want to model yourself after.”
“Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;â€¦ to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.”
“What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.”
“If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar.”
“Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.”
“It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.”

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