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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #val




The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.


John Keegan


#about #brought #century #compared #dates

The Army damages itself when it doesn't live up to its own values.


Claudia Kennedy


#damages #itself #live #own #up

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.


Johannes Kepler


#criticism #i #intelligent #intelligent man #man

I enjoy the speed of fashion. I love doing different things and I think I still have something valid to say in fashion.


Tom Ford


#different things #doing #enjoy #fashion #i

Anything else you want to tell me?” I asked Valek as we stopped a few feet short of the castle’s south entrance. “Did Ari and Janco set me up for Nix’s attack? Do you have another test of loyalty for me up your sleeve? Maybe the next time, I’ll actually fail. A prospect that seems appealing!” I pushed away Valek’s supporting arm. “When you warned me that you would test me from time to time, I thought you meant spiking my food. But it seems there is more than one way to poison a person’s heart, and it doesn’t even require a meal.


Maria V. Snyder


#yelena #food

It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. [...] In political civilization, the state is an abstraction and the relationship of men utilitarian. Because it has no roots in sentiments, it is so dangerously easy to handle. Half a century has been enough for you to master this machine; and there are men among you, whose fondness for it exceeds their love for the living ideals which were born with the birth of your nation and nursed in your centuries. It is like a child who in the excitement of his play imagines he likes his playthings better than his mother.


Rabindranath Tagore


#politics #tradition #values #western-civilization #food

For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.


Robert Kocharian


#disputed #historical #historical truth #justice #morality

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.


Leo Tolstoy


#even #make #shadow #six #two

Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.


Kiana Tom


#any #business #decisions #i #learned

At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.


Lawrence Kohlberg


#expectations #family #group #his #immediate