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Otto von Bismarck

"The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization."

Source : "The C.S.L.T.: containing views on Abraham Lincoln as expressed by Bismarck in 1878, from the recollections of Conrad von Bauditz Siem". Book by Conrad von Bauditz Siem, 1915.

Otto von Bismarck

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“Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.”

Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.231, Harvard University Press
“But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.”
“the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!”
“Ultimately what is not needed now is recriminations.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.”
“I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. I got to sit down and write some songs with him, and that was pretty heavy. I listened to Our Lady Peace growing up. It got me through the teenage angst.”
“For me the grotesque is necessary to understand beauty,”

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