"It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up."

-- E. Haldeman-Julius

#Civilization Quotes #Cities Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.”
“I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.”
“Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.”
“Serve your parents if you expect your children to serve you when you are old”
“I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.”
“I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sandra Cisneros from Aug 10, 2010
“The idea of freedom can never be disassociated from real Prussia. The real Prussian spirit means a synthesis between restraint and freedom, between voluntary subordination and conscientious leadership, between pride in oneself and consideration for others, between rigor and compassion. Unless a balance is kept between these qualities, the Prussian spirit is in danger of degenerating into soulless routine and narrow-minded dogmatism.”

Source : "Withstanding Hitler" by Michael Balfour, (p. 130), 1988.
“A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.”

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