"What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the church, is like telling a wife it is her duty to love her husband a thing easy to say, but meaning simply nothing. Affection must be won, not commanded."

-- James Anthony Froude

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“We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.”
“Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.”
“When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?”
“City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.”
“Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'”
“Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.”

Source : Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.160, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“There are... scientific works - star catalogues, for example - which are not art; but the theoretical structures of Gauss, Einstein, or Maxwell are original, individual, "very personal" responses and expressions of exactly the same kind as the creative works of Beethoven or Dostoievski.”

Source : James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.2012, Рипол Классик
“Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.”

Source : Duff Cooper (2011). “Old Men Forget”, p.56, Faber & Faber

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