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  • I've done about 15 movies and four television series in Mexico. My last two movies were the highest grossing in Mexican-cinema history - 'Nosotros los Nobles' and 'Instructions Not Included.' -- Karla Souza
  • Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait. -- David Eddings
  • Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race. -- Edward Young
  • Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
  • We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. -- James Madison
  • We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by the other lesson that Religion Flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. -- James Madison
  • Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. -- John Roberts
  • Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic. -- Lytton Strachey
  • Permanent bonds of culture began to be formed between the extreme East and the extreme West of Europe by intermarriage, by commerce, by the admission of the nobles of Byzantium within the orders of chivalry. -- Joseph Jacobs
  • The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched. -- Caleb Cushing
  • Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles. -- Lafcadio Hearn
  • The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words. -- Tom Chatfield
  • For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds. -- Richard K. Morgan
  • Tarot cards likely originated in northern Italy during the late 14th or early 15th century. The oldest surviving set, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, was created for the Duke of Milan's family around 1440. The cards were used to play a bridge-like game known as tarocchi, popular at the time among nobles and other leisure lovers. -- Brendan I. Koerner
  • So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world. -- Tamora Pierce
  • Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. -- John Roberts
  • There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed. -- Rufus Choate
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