"What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy."

-- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

#Patriotism Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Scoundrels Quotes

“Age is not enviable in America. It's not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When the mind is opening to that unbounded pure awareness, the field of pure intelligence, simultaneously the body is losing stresses and strains, and thereby the clouds that were hindering the use of inner full creative intelligence in action, they begin to wither away.”
“Beware of losing what isn't in your head.”
“Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.”
“You don't know for sure why things happen, but you know, it did! It was my time to go on the show and I'm excited to see what my future holds.”

Source : "Pia Toscano Reportedly Inks Record Deal After Shock 'American Idol' Exit" by Luchina Fisher, Ryan Creed, Kevin Dolak, abcnews.go.com. April 9, 2011.
“Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that.”
“Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
“The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided they have been successful, to emphasise certain principles of progress in the past and to produce a story which is the ratification if not the glorification of the present.”

Source : Herbert Butterfield (1931). “The Whig interpretation of history”

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