"On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length."

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Source : Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during ... 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831: with observations on New South Wales”, p.58

Charles Sturt

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“The reason we've been growing at 1.8 percent for the last eight, ten years, which is way below the historical average, is in large part because of our tax code. It is important to us to get the biggest, broadest tax reduction, tax cuts, tax reform that we can possibly get because it's the only way we get back to 3 percent growth. That's what's driving all of this, how do you get the American economy back on that historical growth rate of 3 percent and out of these doldrums of 1.8, 1.9 that we had of the previous Barack Obama administration?”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful... ... the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions, or drown in despair when his days darken.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, James Karman, Una Jeffers (2009). “The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers: With Selected Letters of Una Jeffers”, p.65, Stanford University Press
“All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.”
“From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.”
“Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.”
“Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.”
“If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.”
“All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.”

Source : Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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