"Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and . . . you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother."

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Source : Edward Everett Hale, Hsuan L. Hsu, Susan Kalter (2010). “Two Texts by Edward Everett Hale: "The Man Without a Country" and Philip Nolan's Friends”, p.32, Rowman & Littlefield

Edward Everett Hale

#Mother Quotes #Country Quotes #Boys Quotes

“Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.”
“Those who say "it's not personal, it's just business" are lying. All business is personal, and the best business is very personal.”
“I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.”
“That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.”

Source : Alfred Sutro (1906). “The Price of Money: A Play in Four Acts”
“I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.”
“I'm so personally attached to all the characters I met and photographed over the years ... the anthology is like a photographic reliquary that could potentially preserve their grace, fierce joy, and restlessness.”

Source : Source: www.cnn.com
“My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically.”

Source : Jon Richardson (2011). “It’s Not Me, It’s You!: Impossible perfectionist, 27, seeks very very very tidy woman”, p.20, HarperCollins UK
“I do my talking inside the Octagon.”

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