"May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera."

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Source : Giacomo Meyerbeer, Robert Ignatius Letellier (1999). “The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The years of celebrity, 1850-1856”, p.21, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Giacomo Meyerbeer

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“But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?”
“It wouldn't take us long to discover the substance of that dream. It is found in those majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, words lifted to cosmic proportions: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by God, Creator, with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. This is a dream. It's a great dream.”
“The TSA is under fire for major security lapses. The TSA has let through pipe bombs, knives, and the last three Nicolas Cage movies.”
“You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl.”
“Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.”

Source : Jefferson Davis (1963). “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Complete)”, p.272, Library of Alexandria
“When the iPhone was first announced, CEO Steve Jobs spewed enough BS to cover a football field full of babies 3 feet deep in bullshit, which sounds cool because he could have potentially murdered a football field full of babies, but he passed on this opportunity by introducing the phone instead.”

Source : "The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your face". www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net.
“The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.”
“Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination, the face of poverty is black. In all actuality, the face of poverty is white.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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