"The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states."

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Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.47, Cosimo, Inc.

Herbert Croly

#Adoption Quotes #Political Quotes #Opponents Quotes

“You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.”
“Who said that clothes make a statement? What an understatement that was. Clothes never shut up.”

Source : Susan Brownmiller (2013). “Femininity”, p.86, Open Road Media
“The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest. It may be wholeheartedness. You are so exhausted because all of the things you are doing are just busyness. There's a central core of wholeheartedness totally missing from what you're doing.”

Source : Gordon T. Smith (2011). “Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential”, p.64, InterVarsity Press
“Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.”
“A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.”
“It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.”
“Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.”

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