"She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers."

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Source : Alexander Woollcott (1951). “The Indispensable Woollcott”

Alexander Woollcott

#Sarcastic Quotes #Ships Quotes #Sinking Quotes

“But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.”

Source : Marc Bloch (1992). “The Historian's Craft”, p.10, Manchester University Press
“I don't really try to get involved politically by giving money to politicians or by saying I'm a Democrat or Republican. Right now, I just view myself as an American.”

Source : "The Billionaires’ Loophole" by Alec MacGillis, www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2016.
“Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that.”
“The only real security is the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.”

Source : Audrey Sutherland (1978). “Paddling my own canoe”, Kolowalu Book
“I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I'll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent.”
“Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.”
“Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.”

Source : 77 Eng. Rep. 250, 1605.
“The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible for everything that takes place, the good things and the bad things. True enough, they suffer most from a war, but it is their apathy, craving for authority, etc., that is most responsible for making wars possible. It follows of necessity from this responsibility that the working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are capable of establishing lasting peace.”

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