"Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments."

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Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.231, Harvard University Press

Bernard Bailyn

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“Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.”
“I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.”
“Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for me, it's a vocation. It's not an egotistical thing, but something else. I'm in a dialogue with my audience, and that's something I need”
“The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of a white paper bag. And yet, I did some remarkable things. And later on, there were periods where I got this mission to find an articulate voice with rewrites and all. There were periods where I was as dense as Faulkner.”

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“A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.”

Source : Sarah Ruhl (2010). “The Clean House and Other Plays”, p.435, ReadHowYouWant.com
“From day one, my mantra has been - and will continue to be - that as a government we were there to serve the people, not the other way around.”
“The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.”
“And I say, 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says, 'Oh, uh, there won't be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.”

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