"I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which preceded the firing of that gun at Sumter. Politicians or far-sighted leaders on both sides knew what was coming. And it is they who have written histories of the war. But to the easy-going millions, busied with their farms or shops, the onrushing disaster was as inexplicable as an earthquake. Their protest arose from sea to sea like the clamor of a gigantic hive of frightened bees."

-- Rebecca Harding Davis

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“The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.”
“Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.”

Source : Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”
“Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.”
“The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.”

Source : Lyn Hejinian (2000). “The Language of Inquiry”, p.207, Univ of California Press
“The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first ones we met quite startled us. They wear the tight-fitting trunk hose made of woolen stuff hooked up the back of the leg. It is white with long black stripes of embroidery down the leg & at the top in front the shirt is pulled through slashes. They are long slim chaps with dandy little moustaches & are most theatrical in effect.”
“As the joke goes, you donâ€™t have to be faster than the wolf chasing you, just faster than everyone else running away.”
“Well, the real sex organ is between the ears, not between the legs”
“I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.12, Princeton University Press

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