"Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years."

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Source : Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.8

Robert Toombs

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“Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.”
“It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale.”

Source : "Steve Martin and Claire Danes". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 19, 2005.
“The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.”
“I have little hair because my brain is so big it pushes the hair out.”

Source : "Did I say that?". www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2008.
“Free driving is like an extreme sports version of snorkeling, ... That's about 50 feet deep. And basically what you do is you hold your breath and you wear a weight belt and go down as fast as possible and hold your breath for minutes at a time.”
“Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.”
“In novels like 'Kaaterskill Falls', I've been able to write sympathetically about religious people - and beyond that, I've been able to take a religious point of view - because belief does not anger or embarrass me.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.”

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