"For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the United States has been twice saved in our time by the arguments formulated by Turgot."

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Source : ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1910). “SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON”

Andrew Dickson White

#Country Quotes #United States Quotes #Transition Quotes

“Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.”
“He sits next to me, careful to avoid my hair that's splayed out around my head like blood. A bullet to the forehead, boom, blond waves everywhere.”
“Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giving; Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving.”

Source : Richard Realf, Richard Josiah Hinton (1898). “Poems”
“The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.”
“Fingernails are for opening things and toenails are for storing precious minerals off the ground.”
“No human creature can give orders to love.”
“They don't find peace. It's pure bullshit. When something unspeakable happens, or when you do something unspeakable, it changes you. It takes you apart and reassembles you. You are a Frankenstein of circumstance, and the parts never fit back quite right and the life you live is a stolen one. You don't deserve to walk among the living, and you know it.”

Source : Lisa Unger (2014). “In the Blood: Chilling grip-lit with a breathtaking twist you won't see coming”, p.91, Simon and Schuster
“A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.”

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