quotes about Backdrop

“We're very far from harmony. The only thing that's going to bring world harmony has to be from the outside. It has to be external. It has to be us versus an external thing.”

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“It's very difficult to be different from the rest of the crowd the majority of the time, which by definition is what you're doing if you're a successful trader.”

“Don't talk - keep it in your heart.”

“Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.”

“I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.”

“Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.”

“I’m thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God of Islam, because both are depicted as omnipotent Oriental despots, cosmic Saddam Husseins,”

“There is something new in the air. There is, there is a - a hunger for an open, non-dogmatic, form of Christian faith and practice, which adapts itself to a rapidly changing world; and speaks to that world the message of Jesus Christ. And a freedom to rediscover some of the language of the tradition now that's it's not handed down to us, you know, with a strict framework of doctrinal, fixed structures.”

“God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.”

Source : "Institutes of Oratory (Volume II)". Book by Quintilian, 95 CE.

“I haven't done as much proper travelling as I'd like to have done. However, I know how important the weather is for my mood and spirits.”