"Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light."

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Source : Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.274, Regnery Publishing

Russell Kirk

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“I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.”
“Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.”

Source : Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.159, Canongate Books
“Nigeria is one of the best-kept secrets,”
“I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.”
“I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.”
“As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.”
“When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.”

Source : Martín Prechtel (2013). “The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form”, p.83, North Atlantic Books
“To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. ... It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.”

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