"There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California."

-- James K. Polk

#Independent Quotes #Oregon Quotes #California Quotes

“Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.”
“To love is to be vulnerable....”
“If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.”
“We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.”

Source : Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson
“When you awaken, you will see that this is Heaven on Earth, and everything in physical form is the body of God.”
“Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.”
“If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.”
“Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.”

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