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• Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

  Diogenes

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

  Laurence Olivier

  Time, Politician, Cardinals

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people.

  Meir Kahane

  Heart, People, World

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• Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Virtue, Pretending, Pretension

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• I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.

  Edward VII

  Shut Up, Should, Members

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• Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

  Charles James Fox

  Assembly

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• If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Success, Jobs, Work

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Feb 17, 2015

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• My mother had heard all about miniskirts but had never seen one so I took her for lunch at Alvaro's [in Chelsea]. We walked down the King's Road and waited 10 seconds for our first miniskirt and a girl came along with her skirt tucked round her arse. I said: 'What do you think, ma?' And she said: 'If it's not for sale, you shouldn't put it in the window!'

  Michael Caine

  Girl, Mother, Thinking

  "Michael Caine meets William Orbit". Interview with William Orbit, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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• And his hands would plait the priest's entrails,
  For want of a rope, to strangle kings.

  Denis Diderot

  Hands, Rope, Priests

  "Poésies Diverses". Book by Denis Diderot, 1875.

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• The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.

  King James I

  Divine Right, Thrones, Earth

  Speech to Parliament at Whitehall, March 21, 1609.

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• There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Years, Stories, Palaces

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• I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.

  Giuseppe Zangara

  Gun, Hands, President

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  Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Strikes

  "Felix Frankfurter Reminisces". Book by Harlan B. Phillips, p. 59, 1960.

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• Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.

  Pope Gregory VII

  Mean, Pride, Men

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• I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried- "La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!

  John Keats

  Warrior, Dames, Saws

  "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" l. 37 (1820)

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• What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

  Christopher Marlowe

  Sunshine, Perfect, Shadow

  c.1591 Edward II (published1594), act 5, sc.1.

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• There are videos where I would go approaching strangers and sing the songs from 'The Lion King. I would have been about four years, and I came running up to people on the beach, strangers that I chose at random and began to sing, and my family never knew where I was, they were always looking for me, trying to imagine who I was harassing this time .

  Taylor Swift

  Running, Song, Beach

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• The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

  Victor Hugo

  People, Paving The Way, Stones

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• The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Husband, Afterlife, Divine Right

  'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792) ch. 3

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• For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.

  Thomas Malory

  Flower, Heart, Knights

  Sir Thomas Malory, Eugène Vinaver (1975). “King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales”, p.219, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I kill kings and presidents first, and next all capitalists.

  Giuseppe Zangara

  President, Next, Firsts

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• Too many kings can ruin an army

  Homer

  Leadership, Army, Ruins

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• In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to England; This however impossible while Charles living. Charles cannot be executed without trial on adequate grounds for which do not presently exist. Therefore advise that Charles be assassinated, but will have nothing to do with arrangements for procuring an assassin, though willing to help in his escape. [King Charles I was in prison at the time].

  Oliver Cromwell

  Support, Trials, Assassins

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• A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

  Solomon

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Kindness

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