"In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants."

-- John Boyd Orr

#Government Quotes #Gunpowder Quotes #Warfare Quotes

“It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that”
“I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.”
“Enthusiasm is the electricity of life”
“Impossible is possible if you put your mind into it and don't give up.”
“Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.”
“I guess there's a song for absolutely everything that could possibly happen to a person.”
“When you go to a nice restaurant, you want to be relaxed and have a drink and everything, you want to look at people who look well. You don't want to look at some slob with an open shirt and a hairy chest. At least I don't.”
“If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.”

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