"Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it."

-- Lois McMaster Bujold

#Victory Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Ease Quotes

“In 1992, fans of our feline temptress got another chance to sink their claws into the new and exciting tales of Catwoman in Batman: The Animated Series.”
“[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.”
“I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.”
“We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.”

Source : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.535, Ravenio Books
“Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.”

Source : "The Invention and Reinvention of the City: An Interview with Rem Koolhaas". Interview with Paul Fraioli, jia.sipa.columbia.edu. April 19, 2012.
“Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.”

Source : Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.382, Simon and Schuster
“A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.”
“My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because... the voyagers and adventurers and real contributors - that's where they come from.”

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