"The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out of the way, they did him the favor of representing him as the torchbearer of the French Revolution. They did him the further favor of repeating his mistakes and besting him at them."

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Source : "Napoleon".

J. Christopher Herold

#War Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Tyrants Quotes

“The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses. When the mind can find no differences and no likenesses, as is the case when monotony is present, it restlessly, then resentfully, and at last frantically seeks for contrast that it may again busy itself with observing differences and likenesses.”
“I love all of my shoes! It is a must to have them color coordinated, and to be able to see each and every one of them. I know exactly where each one lives and I can tell if one has even been moved!”

Source : "ELLE & The Coveteur: Khloe Kardashian". www.elle.com. April 13, 2011.
“I took the name originally as a kind of disguise because I didn't want people to know I was about to embark on a s****y musical career that would last five months. And a lot of people took funny names back then.”

Source : Source: articles.chicagotribune.com
“Focus on where you want to go, not where you don't want to go.”
“I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.”
“I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going into Parliament. I have always railed against it privately.”
“Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.”
“I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people are going to get excited about.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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