"We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities."

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Source : James Henry Breasted (1919). “The Origins of Civilization”

James Henry Breasted

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“Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.”
“So to the wretched writer I should like to say that thereâ€™s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them”
“When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.”
“I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.”
“It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.”
“Bad news travels fast. Good news takes the scenic route.”
“Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.”
“Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.”

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