"America, so far as her physical history is concerned, has been falsely denominated the New World. Hers was the first dry land lifted out of the waters, hers the first shore washed by the ocean that enveloped all the earth beside; and while Europe was represented only by islands rising here and there above the sea, America already stretched an unbroken line of land from Nova Scotia to the Far West."

-- Louis Agassiz

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“When people forget themselves, they usually do things others remember.”
“The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.”

Source : Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.16, Egmont UK
“It's nice when you work with someone who has an eye for clothes and will show what you've given them.”
“My parents had a sidewalk cafe: every Sunday there was an accordion player and apparently I went through the motions, squeezing a shoebox. One of the regulars in 'the cafe said to my father: "I think you should get your son an accordion-that's what he's trying to do, with that shoebox." So they got me a little cardboard diatonic accordion-I still have it. I started to play the National Anthem, and things like that. It seems I was musically gifted-but my parents just never pushed in that direction.”
“People never talked about my music. They just counted how many knickers were on stage.”
“Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.”
“He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.”
“All this stuff you heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans, traditionally, love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle... Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost - and will never lose - a war, because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.”

Source : "Fictional character: General George S. Patton". "Patton", www.imdb.com. 1970.

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