"We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder."

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Source : "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.

Andre Maurois

#Love Quotes #Happiness Quotes #Two Quotes

“Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.”
“I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.”
“The gospel is not weight, it is wings. It carries us.”

Source : "'Fear Not; I Am with Thee'". Jean A. Stevens' address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2014.
“Change is never easy, but always possible.”

Source : Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”
“When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.”
“There isn't much to say about my childhood. I remember explosions of intense happiness, followed shortly afterwards by profound melancholy that always prompted remarks and comments from those around me on how remote my life was from my age. Therefore I rapidly lost all my respect for age. From then on, I always lived without any age, given that every year I used to repudiate it, choosing another one for the sole good reason that I liked it better.”

Source : Source: observer.com
“It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.”
“When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?'”

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