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Jan Morris Inspirational Quotes (134)

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Basque is one of the world's more alarming languages. Only a handful of adult foreigners, they say, have ever managed to learn it. The Devil tried once and mastered only three words - profanities, I assume.
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Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.
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There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second is from the Psalms grin like a dog and run about through the city.
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Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.
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Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.
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I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.
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You get what you expect. Expect to heal. Expect victory.
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Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised before the fact. Allegiance must be earned so it will hold, win or lose.
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Niko, you're halfway to where you need to go. It's the most dangerous time. And all the gods and forces have a stake in you, Hero. Or do you want to be just a memory, a cult somewhere, with people sacrificing horses to your name?
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I must decide if you deserve to die.
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To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.
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Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.
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Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.
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Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny.
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Survival has its own etiquette.
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Everyone prepares for battle in his own way.
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You must become like yourself.
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You're not one to take lightly, to love of for an evening and leave of a dawn.
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Life to you, Riddler, and everlasting glory.
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Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high - high enough to flout the gods? Bring godhead where a man may reach out and take it? growls Enlil, and lightning splits a clear blue sky.
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Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.
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Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its slither, it is gloriously onomatopoetic.
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Niko's angular face caught a flicker of firelight and Tempus saw his future there: sharp purpose, discipline, and power in perfect balance love of man and gods, and mercy transcending all. If war ever wore a more humane face, this one would make it so.
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There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything.
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