"Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks."

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Source : "'Le Barbier de Séville' ('The Barber of Seville')". Play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Act 3, Scene 13, 1775.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#Sticks Quotes #Calumny Quotes

“You see crime and you see all [ sharia] things happening, unfortunately all over Europe, because of (a) the mass immigration, but (b) also because of we politicians are not able to deal with it.”
“When Hailey was born my first thought was that I needed a drink and that hospitals should have bars in them.”
“The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.”

Source : James Bryce (1889). “The American Commonwealth”
“Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.”
“For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draughtâ€”nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!”
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.”
“A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to do good with other peoples' money.”
“The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill ... its purpose is to reach a political goal,”

Source : "Abu Abbas: from terrorist to peace advocate" by Rob Reynolds, www.cnn.com. May 10, 1996.

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