"The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations."

-- Lech Walesa

#Fighting Quotes #Loss Quotes #Independence Quotes

“The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.”
“Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!”
“Though we often wonder why God does what he does, we can be sure he does it on better information.”
“You have to make a film and make it interesting, so you can't have a shot of you cleaning your teeth just because you did that. It's boring!”
“I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.”
“We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.”

Source : Gamal Abdel Nasser's speech to Egypt's National Assembly in Cairo (November 6, 1969) as quoted in The Washington Post (p. 1), November 7, 1969.
“Such platitudes as "If you believe it, it will happen," "If you give 100%, you get 100%," "Good things happen to good people" people utter when we don't know what else to say. There's comfort in platitudes, and every so often they're accurate, but mainly they're hollow words. It's a sign of how little we're able to directly address the world around us. The language of the times reveals our avoidance.”
“I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.”

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