Famous quotes containing the words present, day and/or peru:
“In the present civil war it is quite possible that God’s purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard—it is absurd, unreal, dangerous.... The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)