"No matter how high or great the throne, What sits on it is the same as your own."

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Source : "The Americans". Book by David Frost, 1970.

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#Thrones Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.”
“Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.”
“I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.”
“Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un.”
“From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.”
“What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.”
“Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.”
“My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.”

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