"The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.”
“These words reveal the childâ€™s inner needs; â€˜Help me to do it aloneâ€™.”
“The maplewood flat-finished Martin had represented the most outrageous luxury in her life when she bought it in 1971 for four hundred dollars. But Lonnie Slocum assured her the Martin was a good investment, even if she never learned to play it better than an acid head who was into heavy metal.”
“Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.”
“There is no business model in the modern media that promotes comity. If we worried too much about criticism, we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.”
“Look at what you've done, you're losing me is what you've won. Got me planning to go solo”
“I have been the victim of many of the injustices that women who are my clients have had. That is how I understand how this is impacting their lives economically, psychologically, often physically. It's all personal. For me, if one woman is denied her rights, we're all being denied our rights.”
“Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.”

Source : Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.36

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