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Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is co

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. – Walter Bagehot

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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism – despotism during the campaign – is indispensable. – Walter Bagehot

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War
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. – Walter Bagehot

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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. – Queen Elizabeth

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Royalty, Kings, Queens

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat; yet you never had, nor shall have any that will love you better. – Elizabeth I

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Royalty, Kings, Queens

I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms. – Leonard Cohen

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Sometimes, in a relationship, we fail to put two and two together because we want so much to keep one and one together. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. – W. Clement Stone

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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. – Oswald Chambers

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I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York. – Joseph Kosinski

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