"There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements."

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Source : William Bligh (2012). “Mutiny on the Bounty”, p.28, Courier Corporation

William Bligh

#Class Quotes #People Quotes #Want Quotes

“The day I get too big for myself, my mum will slap me down!”
“Quit counting time and start making time count”
“I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.”
“If I want something I do everything to get it.”

Source : "Larry Clark’s America". Interview with Owen Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2016.
“We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.”
“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”

Source : John F. Kennedy's Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, www.jfklibrary.org. February 18, 1958.
“Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.”
“To build a power plant and run lines to houses, to huts, to anything is a tremendous amount of work...how about...just giving them the service where they need it-on the roof of their hut.”

Source : "Eco-celebrity tries reality TV show". Interview with Sarah van Schagen, www.nbcnews.com. January 4, 2007.

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