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“I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.”
Source : Interview With Jim Clash, uk.askmen.com.
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“The one enemy in the world that America has is England. But then, England is the great land of Christian civilization, and it may not be a thing to be much wondered at that our Americans whom we send to represent us in London become in a short time somewhat civilized, and learn to love those who hate them, bless those that curse them, and do good to those that persecute and calumniate them.”
Source : Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (1898). “Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898: Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood. Customs, Habits and Manners of the Irish People. Erinach and Sassenach-Catholic and Protestant-Englishman and Irishman-English Religion-Irish Plunder. Social Life and Prison Life. The Fenian Movement. Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America”
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“Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.”
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“My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.”
Source : Maria Monk, Theodore Dwight, John Jay Slocum, William K. Hoyte (1836). “Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal”, p.9, New York : Howe & Bates
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“With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has found in the careful study of nature, and in the laws of nature, the foundations of the division of property, and the practice of all ages has consecrated the principle of private ownership, as being pre-eminently in conformity with human nature, and as conducing in the most unmistakable manner to the peace and tranquility of human existence.”
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“We just forced them into tough shots that whole overtime. It was a classic five minutes that we needed.”
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“Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.”
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“Nothing's more attractive than a heavy praying woman,”