"It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location."

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Source : Arthur Phillips (2002). “Prague: A Novel”, p.126, Random House

Arthur Phillips

#Location Quotes #Easier Quotes

“We have to modernize how we make laws.”

Source : "Iceland, a land of Vikings, braces for a Pirate Party takeover" by Griff Witte, www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 2016.
“The only thing that can be expected from the next US president is more war, more murder, and more oppression of the gullible American people. People as uninformed and as gullible as Americans have no future. Americans are a dead people that history is about to run over.”
“Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.”
“Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself”

Source : Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.18, Anchor
“Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.”
“In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American -- on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.”
“If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it meant millions of people would die.”
“The family I grew up in had three generations of widows.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com

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