"[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola."

-- Sylvia Pankhurst

#Cities Quotes #Venice Quotes #Water Quotes

“There are lovers content with longing. Iâ€™m not one of them.”
“There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.”

Source : "Papandreou unveils radical reforms to salvage Greece's public finances" by Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2009.
“We need to look back sometimes and realize the past taught us to appreciate our future.”
“I'm happy to say I am a Harrison-Kreps-Keynesian.”
“It is doubtful that the dissection of living animals and plants could be done by those who believe them to be holy. A pantheist would not view trees as so many board feet in the manner a Christian would. A pantheist would be less likely to measure the number of acre feet coming over a waterfall than his Christian descendent, centuries later who had become a scientist. That which is sacred would be handled with a certain reverence.”
“I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.”
“Who taught you to hate yourself?”
“Fascists divide in two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists”

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