"My country, right or wrong, but still my country."

-- Stephen Decatur

#Country Quotes #Patriotism Quotes #Stills Quotes

“It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs”
“I am not a perfect man who has led a faultless life.”
“The whole of organic nature on our planet exists only by a relentless war of all against all. ... The raging war of interests in human society is only a feeble picture of an unceasing and terrible war of existence which reigns throughout the whole of the living world.”
“Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination”
“Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song.”
“The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the readerâ€™s eye, this will be misunderstood by most of that minority which does not wholly ignore it. In the interests, however, of the history and future of photography, that risk seems irrelevant, and this flat statement necessary.”
“Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal.”
“The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.”

Source : Steven Brust (2009). “Five Hundred Years After”, p.525, Macmillan

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