"The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer."

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Source : Thaddeus Stevens (1998). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868”, p.45, University of Pittsburgh Pre

Thaddeus Stevens

“Human beings are complicated. O.J. Simpson is a testament to that. Just because he stood on trial accused of murder doesn't mean he can't be a generous person.”

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“Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.”
“Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.”
“For decades, people right, left, and center complained that the presidency is too powerful. Trump's administration is shrinking the presidency. The president has less and less influence over Congress. This president is not fulfilling the usual role of the president in being the moral leader and the spokesman for the country. He's just not being looked to for leadership.”

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“I haven't stopped making music since I started at 16 and throughout the years I made a lot of different connections and had a lot of opportunities.”

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“The majority work to make a living; some work to acquire wealth or fame, while a few work because there is something within them which demands expression...Only a few truly love it.”
“Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated changes, during which they often acquire organs which have no function, and which, after remaining visible for a short time, disappear without leaving a trace ... To the Darwinian, the explanation of such facts is obvious. The stage when the tadpole breathes by gills is a repetition of the stage when the ancestors of the frog had not advanced in the scale of development beyond a fish.”
“The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.”

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