"Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning."

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Source : "A Hero of Our Time". Book by Mikhail Lermontov, 1841.

Mikhail Lermontov

#People Quotes #Glory Quotes #Achieve Quotes

“When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing.”
“Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.”
“Be prepared to reinvent yourself. Be prepared to go out on a limb occasionally, and be prepared to do the things that you feel strongly about”
“Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous than in the capital of the United States, because the chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag, yawn so wide and deep.”

Source : What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the U.S., delivered 10 October 1906, United Women's Club, Washington, D.C.
“Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables.”

Source : "An Interview With Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert". Interview with Jamie Soja, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.
“I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.”
“I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.”

Source : Anita Shreve (2014). “The Weight Of Water”, p.42, Hachette UK
“In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.”

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