“It’s easy—very easy—to slay a ruler. But it’s very difficult to prevent a worse one from coming to his place.”

"Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night", p. 282
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)

Of Hearing, 6
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Parallel Lives

Source: 2015, Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality (June 2015)
Context: I know that Americans of goodwill continue to hold a wide range of views on this issue. Opposition in some cases has been based on sincere and deeply held beliefs. All of us who welcome today’s news should be mindful of that fact; recognize different viewpoints; revere our deep commitment to religious freedom. But today should also give us hope that on the many issues with which we grapple, often painfully, real change is possible. Shifts in hearts and minds is possible. And those who have come so far on their journey to equality have a responsibility to reach back and help others join them. Because for all our differences, we are one people, stronger together than we could ever be alone. That’s always been our story. We are big and vast and diverse; a nation of people with different backgrounds and beliefs, different experiences and stories, but bound by our shared ideal that no matter who you are or what you look like, how you started off, or how and who you love, America is a place where you can write your own destiny.

V. K. Subramanian (2013), in "101 Mystics of India", p, 181
About Swathi Thirunal

T.T.T. (Acronym in Danish: Ting Tager Tid)
Grooks
Context: p>Put up in a place
where it's easy to see
the cryptic admonishmentT. T. T.When you feel how depressingly
slowly you climb,
it's well to remember that
Things Take Time.</p

[George Gabriel Stokes, Natural theology: The Gifford lectures, delivered before the University of Edinburgh in 1893, Adamant Media Corporation, 1893, 1421205122, 4]

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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook G (1779-1783)