"It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history."

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Source : "The Devil in the White City". Book by Erik Larson, 2003.

Erik Larson

#Taken Quotes #Dark Quotes #Roots Quotes

“In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our world. Our mission is to serve as catalysts for a planetary awakening in our lifetime, to take a non-violent path to the next stage of our evolution.”

Source : Barbara Marx Hubbard (1993). “The revelation: our crisis is a birth”
“I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.”

Source : "The Magic of Rubinstein..." by Alan M. Kriegsmen, The Washington Post, p. B7, January 26, 1977.
“I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.”
“I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure? These lofty curving ranks of lobing, swelling hills, these concealed valleys of fathomless verdure, and these lordly trees with the nursing sunlight glancing in their leaves upon the outlines of the magnificent masses of shade embosomed among their wide branches-these are cut into my memory to go with me forever.”
“Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.”
“If your father, who is known for carrying around a belt, told you to read a book, you went and did it. I've never spanked my kid - I think because in my household you were afraid. If you did something wrong and got caught, you were getting spanked.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.”
“The most-praised generation goes to work”

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