"Liberty is the breath of life to nations."

-- George Bernard Shaw

#4th Of July Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“I know that [Mike] Tyson talked about wanting to eat his opponent's children, but I don't think he ever had the balls to do it. I'm different - when I kidnapped Bill Lawrence's daughter, I cut off all of her fingers before sending my demands so that I wouldn't have to sit there and wait for him to ignore them. We worked things about about nine hours in, which is good because I ate her thumb as a midnight snack.”
“The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.”
“Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.”
“I didn't get my licence because I wasn't allowed to. But I haven't had a seizure for a long time so I could, theoretically, get my licence. But I'm now just so used to not driving, I'm scared of what I'd do.”
“It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years.”

Source : Leonard Hayflick (1994). “How and why we age”
“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”

Source : E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.46, Delacorte Press
“Normally, we think of the religious as people who care more, not less than the rest of us. This is not true, not exactly. The truly religious care more deeply about fewer things and do't give a hoot about the rest.”

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