"...in place of seeking a reason for going abroad, I would prefer to say that I have failed to discover any reason why I should stay at home."

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Source : James Gilmour (1892). “James Gilmour of Mongolia: His Diaries, Letters and Reports”

James Gilmour

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“The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before Congressand that includes the great majority. I sometimes express it by saying the President is the only lobbyist that one hundred and fifty million Americans have. The other twenty million are able to employ people to represent themand thats all right, its the exercise of the right of petitionbut someone has to look after the interests of the one hundred and fifty million that are left.”
“You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed people from murderers.”
“When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and my agent sent me out. It was just a commercial for 'Harry Potter.' That was the first thing I ever went out for and I got the 'Harry Potter' commercial which was really cool, but I didn't play Harry Potter.”
“Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too, is less racist than is populism. A patriot will not exclude a person of another nationality from the community where they have lived side by side and whom he has known for many years, but a populist will always remain suspicious of someone who does not seem to belong to his tribe.”
“Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.”

Source : T. BERRY BRAZELTON, M.D. (1992). “TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE”
“I'm one of the people that when I wake up I have to do what I do. It's not like I want to do it. I kind of have to do it.”
“Some day I'll write a book and call it 'How I Got the Nickname Pumpsie' and sell it for one dollar, and if everybody who ever asked me that question buys the book, I'll be a millionaire.”
“We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and the ruling ideology, paralysed, is incapable of spotting him. It stammers, overcome by its own moral disarmament, and is giving up: this is the time to seize the reins. Present society is an accomplice to the evil that is devouring it.”

Source : Guillaume Faye, Michael O'Meara (2010). “Archeofuturism”, p.18, Arktos

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