"The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people."

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Jacques Maritain

#America Quotes #People Quotes #Admirable Quotes

“Events are not a matter of chance.”

Source : Robert St. John, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1960). “The boss: the story of Gamal Abdel Nasser”
“What isn’t on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues. Chamber Music. Reggaeton. Gospel. And a whole lot of Prince. (I am a Minnesota gal through and through.)”
“I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.”
“Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of what use may be made of them.”
“I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.”
“In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticise, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is acquainted, this freedom belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life.”
“People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”
“Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order â€”in short, of government.”

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