"Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on."

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Source : "The Life and Times of the Shah". Book by Gholam Reza Afkhami, p. 261, 2009.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#Dog Quotes #Moon Quotes

“When todayâ€™s race is over, it's over. The only race that matters is the one coming up.”
“In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in an attic. I wanted to polish him with kisses, clean him up, make him evevn more radiant than he was. "That's what you always want," he said softly... "When you found me under Les Innocents," he said, "you wanted to bathe me with perfume and dress me in velvevt with great embroidered sleeves." "Yes," I said, "and comb your hair, your beautiful russet hair." My tone was angry. "You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.”
“Idleness only leads to bad deeds”
“You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.”
“The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. The first of these a just philosophy will probably induce us universally to explode.”
“My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.”
“A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.”
“It's not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be.”

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