"The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit."

-- William H. Seward

#Class Quotes #Southern Quotes #Slave Quotes

“No one teaches you how to do this. How do you let go of someone who you love so much?”
“I assume these structures are made for siting?”
“I believe that we have the first genius of the 21st century, Leo Messi.”
“I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'”

Source : "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.
“I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.”
“This religion teaches that 6,000 years ago God made the first man out of dust - not even mud - and the first woman out of a bone; that God cursed the whole human race because a snake made the woman eat an apple; that God had a son by another man's wife, and that he had this son murdered in order to keep himself from sending all the human race to hell.”
“The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard”
“We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.”

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