"Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects."

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Source : "Search Results The United States: An Experiment in Democracy". Book by Carl L. Becker, 1920.

Carl L. Becker

#Virginia Quotes #Class Quotes #Southern Quotes

“Don't be too busy for each other because that is something today that I find to be incredibly unfortunate.”
“Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if weÂ´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.”
“We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.”

Source : Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.171, Vintage
“Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.”
“Are we gonna see power laces in 2015? To that I say yes!”

Source : "Nike is once again promising the power-lacing shoes from Back To The Future II" by Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. February 17, 2014.
“A 'sin' is something which is not necessary.”
“The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding of good and evil. As he inflates his imagination he inflates his capacity for evil.”
“I paused for a light at Hamilton and TWlfth and noticed the Nissan was running rough at idle. Two blocks later it backfired and stalled. I coaxed it into the center of the city. Ffft, ffft, ffft, KAPOW! Ffft, ffft, ffft, KAPOW! A Trans Am pulled up next to me at a light. The Trans Am was filled with high school kids. One of them stuck his head out of the passenger-side window. "Hey lady," he said. "Sounds like you got a fartmobile." I flipped him an Italian goodwill gesture and pulled the ball cap low on my forehead. (Three to get Deadly)”

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