"As during the time of kings it would have been naive to think that the king's firstborn son would be the fittest to rule, so in our time it is naive to think that the democratically elected ruler will be the fittest. The rule of succession is not a formula for identifying the best ruler, it is a formula for conferring legitimacy on someone or other and thus forestalling civil conflict."

-- J. M. Coetzee

#Kings Quotes #Son Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Can't do any work with a rock star; you have to go through their lawyers and their agents and their managers and you have to book them hotel rooms. When you work with your friends, you just call them up and they come over and you record and then you go out to see a movie.”
“I don't watch that much football... I really like to play it.”
“Every person has the choice between Good and Evil. Choose Good, and stand against those who would choose Evil.”
“I love food. I'm a big food person. I'm really passionate about eating good food all the time.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.”
“A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.”

Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”
“Every opera, because every opera is a unique slice of a particular perspective, historical perspective and psychological perspective if not musical style, and so forth, they all present different challenges. Some can be musically very challenging, some can be psychologically more challenging. There is always something that requires a pretty specific amount of energy and attention.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.”

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