"Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all."

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Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.77, Rowman & Littlefield

Mark Kingwell

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“We know certainly that our God calls us to a holy life. We know that he gives us every grace, every abundant grace; and though we are so weak of ourselves, this grace is able to carry us through every obstacle and difficulty.”
“I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.”
“I repeat my demand that the occupier leave the land of our beloved Iraq unconditionally, without retaining bases or signing agreements.”
“I like the stability, the continuity of having a lifestyle where I know I can pay my rent at the end of each month. And also I have these children that I am raising and it's nice for all of us to sort of know that we're going to be in a specific place for a certain amount of time. I've never known that in my career. So I'm really quite grateful at this point that I get to have the sort of double existence and I can rely on both.”
“Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports.”
“By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.”
“O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.”
“All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.”

Source : Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library

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