"It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere."

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Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.160, Harvard University Press

Bernard Bailyn

#People Quotes #Vision Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water.”

Source : Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.168, Gill & Macmillan Ltd
“There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.”
“Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.”
“In a noted 1943 Harvard study, there were no cases of toxemia, congenital anomalies, or neonatal deaths among a group of well-fed woman. In contrast two~thirds of the children born to women who were on poor prenatal diets had congenital abnormalities, dies, or (had) neurological dysfunction. and 44% of the mothers had developed toxemia...”
“I don't believe in coincidence.”
“Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a great unifying and integrating force.”
“When I have interns, I always say, 'Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.' People remember that - not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.”
“Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.”

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