"Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should."

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Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.203, Harvard University Press

Bernard Bailyn

#Together Quotes #Crowns Quotes #Sovereign Quotes

“Ho Chi Minh rarely wrote about Sun Tzu, but when he did mention the ancient Chinese military strategist, he was always laudatory, and he sometimes cited his ideas as a model for the Vietnamese revolutionary movement to follow.”
“Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.”
“I think when you go through something that changes you, it is profound in a way and if somebody is helping you, it brings you closer together.”
“I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.”
“One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.”
“Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.”
“If you are bored with Berkeley, you are bored with life.”

Source : "The Gold and the Blue, Volume One: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Academic Triumphs".
“I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it was true, and the revelation caused me no surprise, it was like the echo of a dull, not unexpected shock. The age difference was the last taboo, the final limit, all the stronger for the fact that it remained the last and had replaced all the others. In the modern world you could be a swinger, bi, trans, zoo into S&M, but it was forbidden to be old.”

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