"The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise."

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Source : John Joseph Craven, Jefferson Davis, Edward K. Eckert (1987). “"Fiction Distorting Fact": The Prison Life, Annotated by Jefferson Davis”, p.19, Mercer University Press

Jefferson Davis

#Lying Quotes #War Quotes #Past Quotes

“I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L.A. or New York. I live in Texas, and I go to hole-in-the-wall bars, so there's no paparazzi there.”
“The fact is that Margaret Thatcher was never really a Conservative.”
“Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'”
“Positive attitudes qualify you for positive experiences.”
“Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.”

Source : "Survivor Amanda Lindhout Pens 'A House in the Sky'". Interview with Maureen Halushak, www.flare.com. October 20, 2013.
“So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.”
“It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases.”
“It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.”

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