"And itâ€™d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington."

-- Stephen Briggs

#Dutch Quotes #Example Quotes #Strange Quotes

“Everything that I have ever hoped to accomplish, she has done and done better than anyone I have ever seen.”
“Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms.”
“Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.”
“Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current”

Source : Interview with Lucy A. Snyder, www.lucysnyder.com. July 26, 1999.
“If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads.”
“Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.”
“If you want to change this world, this community that we all live in, then get up and do it. And just start something.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I had wanted for so many years to feel that writing really was at the center of my life, not something I did in my spare time. So the writing and teaching feel in some way to be one thing - the personal engagement and the social engagement good partners.”

Source : Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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