"It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country; they belong to America."

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Source : Jefferson Davis (1923). “Jefferson Davis, constitutionalist: his letters, papers, and speeches”

Jefferson Davis

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“Everybody should have health care, on the one hand. But on the other hand, if you ask Americans, "Are you willing to pay for it?," they say no. So I've never been able to understand this contradiction.”

Source : "Frontline", www.pbs.org. November 10, 2007.
“Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful.”
“There's luck in odd numbers.”

Source : William Bayle Bernard, Samuel Lover (1874). “The Life of Samuel Lover, R. H. A.: Artistic, Literary, and Musical, with Selections from His Unpublished Papers and Correspondence”, p.145
“The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of bourgeois society and his fate within that society.”

Source : Max Horkheimer (1972). “Critical Theory: Selected Essays”, p.138, A&C Black
“I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail to notice that, through their anxious avoidance of criticizing non-Western countries, they trap the people who represent these cultures in a state of backwardness. The experts may have the best of intentions, but as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
“Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.”
“Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrians Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.”
“It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.”

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