"We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today."

-- Stephen Ambrose

#Country Quotes #Today Quotes #Gone Quotes

“It really is better to be lucky than to be good.”
“We want to get another one.”
“Your Majesty, I am like you. I do no work. I do nothing, but I am indispensable.”
“As you go through life, donâ€™t let your feelings-real as they are-invalidate your need to let the truth of Godâ€™s words guide your thinking. Remember that the path to your heart travels through your mind. Truth matters.”
“Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of.”
“The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.”
“Youth has triumphed (upon defeating 86-year-old Dirk van Foreest).”
“Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.”

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