"The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern."

-- Michael Beschloss

#Country Quotes #Party Quotes #Italian Quotes

“Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness. All forms of misery are heralded by a frame of mind that must become immediately recognizable if we are ever to gain mastery in happiness...Take the time to look in your heart and be clear. Walk through life being clear. Practice doing each thing in peace.”
“Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.”
“People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.”
“A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.”

Source : "Michael Moore Wisconsin Speech: America Is Not Broke" by Michael Moore, www.thedailybeast.com. March 7, 2011.
“I don't write for a particular audience.”
“For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.”

Source : Samuel Lover (1858). “The Lyrics of Ireland. Edited and Annotated by S. Lover”, p.108
“If I wasn't Maryse... I would want to be.”
“A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something - and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change.”

Source : Warren Berger (2014). “A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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