"History is a game played backwards only."

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Marge Piercy

#Games Quotes #History Quotes #Backwards Quotes

“I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.”

Source : Lincoln Chafee (2010). “Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President”, p.9, Macmillan
“Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.”
“Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.”
“Consider the death of Princess Diana. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian, who was drunk on Scotch whiskey, followed closely by Italian paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, and finally treated with Brazilian medicines by an American doctor. In this case, even leaving aside the fame of the victims, a mere neighborhood canvass would hardly have completed the forensic picture, as it might have a generation before.”

Source : "The New Paradigm: Merging Law Enforcement and Intelligence Strategies". Center for Policing Terrorism, January 2006.
“We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.”
“Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.”

Source : Giuseppe Mazzini (1872). “Joseph Mazzini His Life, Writings, and Political Principles”, p.64
“In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they've put starch phosphorus flour bottles of water and alcohol and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that.”

Source : Letter, May 17, 1867.
“To find out that there is even one devoted fan who loves you, as a singer, without any condition, gives you tremendous amount of strength and courage. I work over and over again so I dont disappoint those people.”

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