"The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Pride Quotes #Vanity Quotes #Nationalism Quotes

“There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went back and forth, and a shovel and a broom. So, they went around shoveling the horseshit into this barrel. So, you got that job when you were around 15, and then you got to retire at the age of 65, with a pension. A small pension. So that would be 50 years of shoveling horseshit. And I was advised very seriously that I should get that job.”
“Chef's choice is my favorite. I'm super adventurous.”
“If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.”
“A successful business is either loved or needed.”
“I work out. I'm getting toned, too. The Wii Fit really works your body. When I get off, I'm dying.”
“In adopting the republican form of government, I not only took it as a man does his wife, for better, for worse, but, what few men do with their wives, I took it knowing all its bad qualities.”

Source : Statement to John Dickinson, May 23, 1803.
“Since the building of Constantinople, and the removal of the seat of government to that city, no political quarrel separated Rome from Egypt. Pagan Rome, ever since the union of the two countries under Augustus, except when interrupted by the rebellions, had been eagerly copying the superstitions of Egypt, and Christian Rome still followed the same course.”

Source : Samuel Sharpe (1896). “Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity: With Their Influence on the Opinions of Modern Christendom”
“I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.”

Source : "The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis : A Portrait in Her Own Words" by Bill Adler, (p. 5, 232), 2004.

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