"In Mexico the gods ruled, the priests interpreted and interposed, and the people obeyed.In Spain, the priests ruled, the king interpreted and interposed, and the gods obeyed. A nuance in an ideological difference is a wide chasm."

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Source : 1961 A Talent for Loving, bk.1, ch.6.

Richard Condon

#Kings Quotes #Differences Quotes #People Quotes

“When one devotes oneself to meditation, mental burdens, unnecessary worries, and wandering thoughts drop off one by one; life seems to run smoothly and pleasantly. A student may now depend on intuition to make decisions. As one acts on intuition, second thought, with its dualism, doubt and hesitation, does not arise.”
“I don't know whether I will drink again in my life but I didn't drink yesterday, I am not drinking today and I'll try not to drink again tomorrow.”

Source : "Gazza confesses" by Ian Ridley, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.
“Once you take care of people, people respect you.”
“Peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.”
“I don't see masses, I don't see it like, oh there's hundreds of people here and I'm overwhelmed. I just try to think, well I could be a kid in that crowd, or my daughters could be in that crowd, and no one wants to feel like they're just part of the masses.”
“It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.”
“I love the creation process [of music] of it and then sharing it, so I think that was the shift. I never thought I was going to be on a label in general, I was like 'Oh, I wouldn't do that,' and then we ended up on the same label basically.”
“I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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