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Virtue is the only and true nobility.
[Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.] — Juvenal

I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad. — Bernadette Devlin

We are in love, in the very beginning part of it, when you don't ever want to separate your body from the other person's. — Rachel Friedman

[The militia experts] accuse antigoverment agitants of paranoia, yet they spin around and claim that militias speak in coded phrases, have underground bunkers, and are secretly conspiring to take over the world and enslave minorities. They say it's lunacy that men at the pentagon can conspire, yet they're certain that farmers out on the plain are plotting as we speak.

They depict the United Nations as weak und ineffectual, yet they portray raggedy-ass backwoodsmen as the world's biggest organized military threat. — Jim Goad

And when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears. — N.K. Jemisin

Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change. — Edwin Way Teale

When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him. — Anthony Bourdain

The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through
our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what
Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict
on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life ... — Virginia Woolf

The more we run from conflict, the more it masters us; the more we try to avoid it, the more it controls us; the less we fear conflict, the less it confuses us; the less we deny our differences, the less they divide us. — David W Augsburger

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high. — Thomas E. Mann

Aline!" Isabelle looked appalled. "You can't just go around asking people what it's like to be a vampire. — Cassandra Clare