"The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide open spaces surrounded by teeth."

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Source : "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

Charles Luckman

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“What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?”
“A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.”
“Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.”

Source : "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here", 1969.
“I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.”

Source : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Jeremiah E. Goulka (2004). “The grand old man of Maine: selected letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914”, The University of North Carolina Press
“By changing nothing, nothing changes.”
“Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched at their beer in the low haze Of an inn parlour, while the talk ran Noisily by them, glib with prose.”

Source : R. S. Thomas, “Poetry For Supper”
“Intercession is the most unselfish thing anyone can do.”
“Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous. If you see in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense. Doing science is spiritual. So is washing the dishes.”

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