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“We believe in each other, that's enough for me.”

Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer

On Mary Austin, a long time companion, and the inheritor of most of his estate, as quoted in "For A Song : The Mercury that's rising in rock is Freddie the satiny seductor of Queen" by Fred Hauptfuhrer, in People magazine (5 December 1977) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Group_-_12-05-1977_-_People <br class="br">Context: All my lovers asked me why they couldn't replace Mary, but it's simply impossible. The only friend I've got is Mary and I don't want anybody else. To me, she was my common-law wife. To me, it was a marriage. We believe in each other, that's enough for me.

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

Book III, ch. 23.
Discourses

“If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him.”

Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty

Source: The Art of War, Chapter I · Detail Assessment and Planning

“The true objective of war is peace.”

Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty

This attributed to Sun Tzu and his book The Art of War. Actually James Clavell’s foreword in The Art of War http://www.scribd.com/doc/42222505/The-Art-Of-War states http://www.collegetermpapers.com/TermPapers/History_Other/Sun_Tzu_vs_The_Wisdom_of_the_Desert.shtml, “’the true object of war is peace.’” Therefore the quote is stated by James Clavell, but the true origin of Clavell's quotation is unclear. Nonetheless the essence of the quote, that a long war exhausts a state and therefore ultimately seeking peace is in the interest of the warring state, is true, as Sun Tzu in Chapter II Waging Wars says that "There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on." This has been interpreted by Lionel Giles http://www.dutchjoens.info/SunTzu%20-%20Art%20of%20War.pdf as "Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long war can realize the supreme importance of rapidity in bringing it to a close." <br class="br">Dr. Hiroshi Hatanaka, President of Kobe College, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan is recorded as saying "the real objective of war is peace" in Pacific Stars and Stripes Ryukyu Edition, Tokyo, Japan (10 February 1949), Page 2, Column 2. <br class="br">Misattributed

“The world's a little blurry
Or maybe it's my eyes”

Billie Eilish (2001) American singer-songwriter

Source: Píseň Ilomilo

“Sometimes people like to ask me why should girls go to school, why is it important for them. But I think the more important question is why shouldn't they, why shouldn't they have this right to go to school.”

Malala Yousafzai (1997) Pakistani children's education activist

Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (December 10, 2014)

“La dagaalanka rabitaanka naftu, waa furaha guusha ardayga.”

Ahmed Omaar (1987)

Source: https://in.pinterest.com/ahmedomaar7/ahmed-omaar-motivational-quotes-somali-quotes/

“Do not be afraid to fail exams, be afraid to always be a witness to other students success.”

Ahmed Omaar (1987)

Success
Source: https://www.yourquote.in/ahmed-omaar-crc7k/quotes

“Whenever I'm sad I just imagine if babies were born with moustaches.”

Liam Payne (1993) English singer and songwriter

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6422617.Liam_Payne

“Music makes things hurt less.”

Tyler Joseph (1988) American singer-songwriter and record producer

“We will rock you”

Brian May (1947) English musician and astrophysicist

News of the World (album, 1977)

“Gay marriage is legal in 6 states, but having sex with a horse is legal in 23 states. Good job, America.”

Jim Carrey (1962) Canadian-American actor, comedian, and producer

“I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.”

Augustus (-63–14 BC) founder of Julio-Claudian dynasty and first emperor of the Roman Empire

After having visited the mausoleum of Alexander the Great in Alexandria, Augustus was asked if he also wanted to visit the mausoleum of the Ptolemies; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 16. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.

“Ha noqon madhane sita shahaado jaamacaddeed oo garab iyo ciirsi bida garashiyo qaraabo.”

Ahmed Omaar (1987)

“They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“We are not afraid of the owl, we are the hawks.”

Mehmed II (1432–1481) Ottoman sultan

Source: Aşıkpaşoğlu History (Prepared: Atsız), 79

“I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death”

Nas (1973) American rapper, record producer and entrepreneur

N.Y. State of Mind
On Albums, Illmatic (1994)

“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams

“The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.”

Jane Goodall (1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist

Reported in Janelle Rohr, Animal rights: opposing viewpoints (1989), p. 100; Jane Goodall and Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe (1999), p. 6. Occasionally misreported in truncated form, as "The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves", in, e.g., quote honored on XOEarth eco money http://xoearth.org/jane-goodall/

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

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