"France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded."

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Source : Francis Parkman (2004). “Montcalm and Wolfe”, p.26, Digital Antiquaria

Francis Parkman

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“I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.”
“One must make one's own mistakes”
“Terrorism is partly linked to people who have no jobs in Pakistan.”
“Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.”
“Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong with his life.”

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“Buddhist epistemologists do argue that rational analysis leads to the conclusion that rational analysis cannot give us infallible access to truth, including that one. That's not self-defeating, though; it only induces an important kind of epistemic humility and a clearer view of what we do when we reason. We engage in one more fallible human activity among many.”

Source : "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.
“It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?”
“The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone.”

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