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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Glory

All glory comes from daring to begin.
Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory.
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
Glory is the child of peril.
Glory is the shadow of virtue.
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
God gave man the challenge of raw materials -- not the ease of finished things. He left the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation.
I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.


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