"The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation."

-- Amelia B. Edwards

#People Quotes #World Quotes #Valuation Quotes

“From now on you must strive to cut out unnecessary movement. Waste in movement is wrong and will get you killed.”
“Itâ€™s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectatorâ€™s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artistâ€™s.”
“I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.”
“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.”

Source : The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)
“Oi’m always noble, sir; it’s in my blood. ’As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years back. Why?”
“Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the Soul . . .”
“It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking.”
“If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.”

Source : "Atheists: Obama Administration Out Of Line To Pray For Rain" by Zeke Miller, www.buzzfeed.com. July 19, 2012.

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