#na

No nation has friends only interests. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#interests #nation #only

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#finally #give #giving #hat #out

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#country #does #friends #great #great country

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#brilliant #clothes #eternal #life #like

Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#demise #final-project #research #death

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#effectively #great #his #how #idiosyncrasies

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#paper #sheet #starts #visionary #world

We're getting closer to our nature. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#getting #nature #our

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice. ↗

— Joseph Story

#entirely #integrity #justice #less #personal

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject. ↗

— Joseph Story

#advisable #ambition #consciousness #dangers #deemed