"Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly."

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Ursula K. Le Guin

#Kings Quotes #Belief Quotes #Nationalism Quotes

“The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.”

Source : Cyril Falls (1943). “Ordeal by Battle”
“Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.”

Source : "A Man For All Seasons (Act II)". Play by Robert Bolt based on the life of Sir Thomas More, July 1, 1960.
“If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.”
“[The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter”
“You will find when you open your heart and can fill it with loving, beautiful thoughts, that you will want to love all those souls you come into contact with, no matter who they are.”
“The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday”

Source : "The Hessian Courier". Book by Georg Buchner, 1834.
“Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.”
“I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.”

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