"Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters."

-- Kenzaburo Oe

#Reality Quotes #Support Quotes #Half Quotes

“A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.”

Source : Marya Mannes (1948). “Message from a Stranger: A Novel”
“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.”
“God is the God of the impossible, as well as the God of the possible.”
“One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.”

Source : William Falconer, Thomas Day, Robert Blair, Robert Glynn, Beilby Porteus (1822). “The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus”, p.283
“He who is harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking.”
“All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.”
“Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.”
“I know Americans talk a great deal about the price of things - more, I consider, than is entertaining, sometimes!”

Source : Sara Jeannette Duncan (2016). “An American Girl in London”, p.77, Sara Jeannette Duncan

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