"Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy."

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William Lilly

#Ambition Quotes #Two Quotes #Blood Quotes

“Safe?â€ said Mr. Beaver; â€œdonâ€™t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? â€˜Course he isnâ€™t safe. But heâ€™s good. Heâ€™s the King, I tell you.”
“I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook wouls be fundamentally changed . The all-important border would be invisible, that noisy arguement suddenly silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a unified facade that would cry out for unified understanding, for homogeneous treatment. The earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or communist; blue and white,not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied.”
“In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals.”

Source : Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.39, Oxford University Press, USA
“I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.”

Source : James Alan Gardner (1997). “Expendable”, p.191, Harper Collins
“My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that matter. Perhaps it was a feeling of mutual jealousy.”
“We don't mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in Iraq.”
“I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.”
“Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessityâ€¦It is a part of nature.”

Source : 'Social Statics' (1850) pt. 1, ch. 2, 4

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