Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes
Deep in the frozen regions of the north,
A goddess violated brought thee forth,
Immortal Liberty!
Tobias Smollett
Quotes to Explore
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I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
J. Reuben Clark
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People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
J. G. Ballard
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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
D. H. Lawrence
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When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy them, but now they call this free will. At least the Greeks were being honest.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Ludwig van Beethoven
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
Aristotle
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All young people believed they were immortal, and he had personal experience of the methods they used to cull themselves - base-jumping, sky-diving, hard drugs, alcohol. Over the years he'd come to see solid sense in the ways so-called savage peoples formalised their rituals of manhood; without such regulation, young men seemed compelled to invent their own, even more lethal, rites of passage.
Alison Fell
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It is difficulties that show what men are.
Epictetus
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Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV.
Carre Otis
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I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.
Bill Viola
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Deep in the frozen regions of the north,
A goddess violated brought thee forth,
Immortal Liberty!
Tobias Smollett