"I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules."

-- Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#Religious Quotes #Law Quotes #Republic Quotes

“Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light.”

Source : The New York Times, November 28, 1954.
“Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.”

Source : Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.68, Hachette UK
“The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.”
“As a man is, so he sees.”
“It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm.”
“If a tree fell in the forest, and you were the only one there to hear it; if its fall to the ground didnâ€™t make a sound, would you panic in fear that you didnâ€™t exist, or would you bask in the bliss of your nothingness?”
“We have to believe that a creative being lives within ourselves, whether we like it or not, and that we must get out of its way, for it will not give us peace until we do.”
“The most devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itselfe cant endure.”

Source : 'Journal' p. 47

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