"The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away."

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Source : "Memoirs of Theophilus Parsons". Book by Theophilus Parsons, 1859.

Fisher Ames

#Taken Quotes #Eggs Quotes #Mind Quotes

“If a state political organization is founded in part upon a state religion with a dogma based on one or a few 'official' prophets, then shamanism, where every shaman is her or his own prophet, is dangerous to the state. [...] Shamanism, as I said, is not a religion. The spiritual experience usually becomes a religion after politics has entered into it.”
“We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.”
“I tore up my knee break dancing. I have no idea how that happened. Apparently these legs are meant for swimming, but not dancing. I was watching an MTV video, thinking, 'I can do this.' Definitely not. I heard a pop. I sat down and it blew up like a watermelon. I had to go to the hospital and get surgery.”
“I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.”
“The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.”
“People who should be the first to recognize the value of an innovation are often the last...”
“Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects.”

Source : "Search Results The United States: An Experiment in Democracy". Book by Carl L. Becker, 1920.
“I think that the first point to be made is there is no "solution" in Afghanistan. Solution I put in quotes. We live in an op-ed culture, which is to say, you always need to have a solution. The last third of that op-ed piece needs to say, "Do this, this, this and this." There is no this, this, this, and this, that will make Afghanistan right.”

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