"America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton."

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Source : Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

Ellsworth Huntington

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“Some pretty senior young individuals in and around the Cabinet should share the responsibility for talking up an election and referring publicly on the radio to where the risk lies.”

Source : "Labour critics blame Balls and Alexander" by Jo Revill, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2007.
“Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.”
“My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.”
“Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own ***** and destructive impulses ...”
“You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.”
“My whole family is in the arts some way or the other. My father was a cellist in a symphony outside Chicago that was a side-job, he was a scientist. My mother was a dancer in New York. She was next-door neighbors with Dorothy Loudon and they moved to New York together. Mom was a dancer in New York for several years before she got married. My sister was a classical pianist. And my brother was a partier. So it all just seemed to work.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are.”
“We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. Americas lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.”

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