#not

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#different #founded #good #injury #interests

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#bond #cannot #else #form #give

People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country. ↗

— David Sedaris

#american #american culture #ask #back #country

They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity. ↗

— David Sedaris

#electricity #fields #french #french people #generous

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that. ↗

— Lisa See

#because #books #certain #footnotes #i

Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#culture #each #had #killing #lack

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#cannot #legislate #legislation #morality #tells

We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#another #coming #court #forces #got

One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story. ↗

— David Selby

#dark shadows #dependent #else #i #i think

The world cannot be governed without juggling. ↗

— John Selden

#governed #juggling #without #world