"The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire."

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Bernard DeVoto

#People Quotes #Empires Quotes #West Quotes

“The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well.”
“Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 23, 2016
“I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.”
“Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.”
“Thereâ€™s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and thereâ€™s Feminism and Hedonism, and thereâ€™s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the system that means the most to me.”
“Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.”
“The petroDollar system breaking down, where oil is no longer paid for in Dollars internationally, essentially would be the death knell to the US Dollar as the reserve currency. It means the US can't borrow with 'exorbitant privilege' anymore, and it means the US Treasury market is set for an out-of-control interest rate spiral.”
“Real peace comes only when you stop chasing it. When you relax your driving desire for comfort, real fulfillment arises. When you drop your hectic pursuit of gratification, the real beauty of life comes out. When you seek to know the reality without illusion, complete with all its pain and danger, that is when real freedfom and security are yours.”

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