"America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a widow."

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Source : Ronald Wright (2005). “Stolen Continents: Five Hundered Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Ronald Wright

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“Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.”
“Euphemisms are for the differently brained.”
“Instead of wanting to win, we expected to win. There's a lifetime between wanting something and expecting something. When you expect something, it means you've prepared, done the work, and EXPECT TO WIN!!”
“Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”
“My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.”
“I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.”

Source : Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com.
“I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap.”
“The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.”

Source : Sir Charles Tupper (1914). “Recollections of Sixty Years in Canada”, London : Cassell

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