"Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed."

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Source : "The Emperor and the Maula". Short story by Robert Silverberg, 2007.

Robert Silverberg

#Order Quotes #Might Quotes #Behavior Quotes

“I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.”
“We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition.”
“Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.”
“I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.”
“There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people... Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin.”
“Germany, which has lately united 80 million Germans, has submitted certain neighboring countries to her supremacy and gained military strength in many aspects, and thus has become, as clearly can be seen, a dangerous rival to principal imperialistic powers in Europe - England and France. That is why they declared war on Germany on a pretext of fulfilling the obligations given to Poland. It is now clearer than ever, how remote the real aims of the cabinets in these countries were from the interests of defending the now disintegrated Poland or Czechoslovakia.”

Source : Molotov's report on (29 March 1940), after the Polish defeat, as quoted in the weekly Soviet newspaper "Moscow News", published by Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga, April 1, 1940.
“Spatial intelligence is virtually left out of formal education. In kindergarten we give children blocks and sand with which to build. Then we take those things away for the next twelve years of their education and expect kids to be architects and engineers.”
“If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.”

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