"The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on what the well knows to be his last day, in the pass of Thermopylae, is not to be contemplated without admiration."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Moving Quotes #Hair Quotes #History Quotes

“Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.”
“Itâ€™s hard to deny that an alarming number of those who stood for peace, not war, were either killed by deranged lone gunmen or else died in suspicious circumstances. We refer of course to the likes of JFK, Martin Luther King, Benazir Bhutto, Bobby Kennedy and John Lennon, to name but a few.”
“Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.”
“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
“I'il n'est pas en notre pouvoir de changer la nature des choses. Il faut les Ð¹tudier telles qu'elles sont.”
“Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.”

Source : Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.8, Penguin
“One knew, of course, that it was not the red cape any more than it was the boots, the tights, the trunks, or the trademark "S" that gave Superman the ability to fly. That ability derived from the effects of the rays of our yellow sun on Superman's alien anatomy, which had evolved under the red sun of Krypton. And yet you had only to tie a towel around your shoulders to feel the strange vibratory pulse of flight stirring in the red sun of your heart.”
“The cognitive structure does not generate consciousness; it simply reflects it; and in the process limits and embellishes it. In a fundamental sense, consciousness is the source of our awareness. In other words, consciousness is not merely awareness as manifest in different forms but it is also what makes awareness possible.”

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