"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."

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Source : Attributed in Saturday Review of Literature, 1 Dec. 1945

Georges Clemenceau

#Funny Quotes #Civilization Quotes #America Quotes

“I'm interested in how small the world really is, and this notion that what happens in one place affects someone else.”
“First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason.”
“National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.”
“Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.”

Source : "The Soup & Bread Cookbook: More Than 100 Seasonal Pairings for Simple, Satisfying Meals". Book by Beatrice Ojakangas, p. 7, 2013.
“I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.”
“I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.”

Source : "The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon: With Selections from His Correspondence". Book by Horace Twiss, 1844.
“You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's all a matter of how agents want to handle their clients.”

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