Nicolas Gomez Davila Quotes
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
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...words were said that could not be put right again...
Cormac McCarthy
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What man would not be a dancer if he could, said the judge. It’s a great thing, the dance.
Cormac McCarthy
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The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.
Bob Barr
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Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.
Jimmy Connors
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Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.
James Buchan
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To this day, if you gave me $1,000, I really can't stand up - You can tell a joke. You're a good storyteller and a good joke teller.
Don Rickles
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Let it all be animal, my life and death, hard and clean like that, anything but human...a lot I care, me with my red heart in the dark earth and my tattooed feet following the animal ways.
Vali Myers
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Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.
Mahatma Gandhi
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No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.
Honore de Balzac
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I suppose I've always put the career, the job and politics, all of that first.
Leo Varadkar
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When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.
Lois Lowry
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Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
