"There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution."

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Source : "Detective Story". Book by Imre Kertész, 2008.

Imre KertÃ©sz

#Police Quotes #Revolution Quotes

“I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all except by some wandering deer. It is a river who wields the brush and it is the same river who before I can bring my friends to view his work erases it forever from human view. After that it exists only in my mind's eye.”
“Just having hope ain't going to cut it. You've got to have hope, passion and skills.”
“Learn to read slow; all other graces will follow in their proper places.”
“Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.”
“I absolutely love doing games in Baton Rouge. Night games in Tiger Stadium are a spectacle and the food choices all around are fantastic! One thing is certain: if I ever choose to feature a tailgating spread for Taste of the Town, LSU will be at the top of the list.”
“Aristotle compiled the first known comprehensive list of all winners of the Olympic Games. Which means that quite probably he was sat in a bar with Plato, muttering 'Go on then, give me any year you like and I'll tell you who won the four-man bobsleigh.'”
“Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.”

Source : Sam Walter Foss, “The House By The Side Of The Road”
“Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity's role in nature. One thing we've learnt from astronomy is that the future lying ahead is more prolonged than the past. Even our sun is less than halfway through its life.”

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