"Ultimately, I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even awesomer had English and American political leaders in the late 18th century been farsighted enough to find compromises that would have held the empire together."

-- Matthew Yglesias

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“If the value of human was given by others, so there is no valuable person in this world.”
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.”

Source : Lucy Larcom (1889). “A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory”
“I don't like the same old thing all the time.”
“But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.”
“Men and women dream the same amount. The main difference in dream content relates to biology and life events. Women dream about their fertility, pregnancy and delivery, and have more dreams about children - owing to their role as primary caregivers. Other differences in dreams have been exaggerated.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“I also learned that you didnâ€™t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You werenâ€™t born a person of cringe and contraction. You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes. You learned contraction to survive, but that was then. You have paid through the nose-paid but good. It is now your turn to reap.”
“We can treat human responses to cognitions as involving law-like connections grounded on free choices which show themselves in our character.”
“The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.”

Source : Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism”, Bloomsbury Press

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