Quotes
Authors
Linda Colley

"It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and political uniformity being resolutely imposed on the peripheries of the island by its centre. For many poorer and less literate Britons, Scotland, Wales and England remained more potent rallying calls than Great Britain, except in times of danger from abroad. And even among the politically educated, it was common to think in terms of dual nationalities, not a single national identity."

-- Linda Colley

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“The morning stars sang together. And a person of delicate ear and nice judgment discussed the singing at length, and showed how and wherein one star differed from another, and which was great and which was not. And still the morning stars sang together.”
“You gotta live life. You gotta enjoy life. I mean, I don't live on the edge.”

Source : Source: www.deathandtaxesmag.com
“Itâ€™s a great feeling to be wanted but itâ€™s more exciting to be inaccessible.”
“Sometimes divorce is better than marriage”
“It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself.”
“When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.”

Source : "Tennessee Rep. Bart Gordon (D) To Retire". www.realclearpolitics.com. December 14, 2009.
“Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?”
“As Deborah Rhode describes, â€œWhen 1,100 Michigan elementary students were asked to describe what life would be like if they were the opposite sex, over 40 percent of the girls saw advantages to being male; they would have better jobs, higher incomes, and more respect. Ninety-five percent of the boys saw no advantage to being female, and a substantial number thought suicide would be preferable.â€”

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