"In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism."

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C. L. R. James

#Europe Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Combination Quotes

“The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls and back again doesn't help much. The useful magic's never at hand. The three wishes and the genies in bottles, seven-league boots, invisible cloaks and all. They stay in the stories, while out here in the wide world we have to muddle through as best we can on our own.”
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
“Dreaming is the most powerful thing because no one can take it from you.”
“My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.”

Source : Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace”, p.10, Black Classic Press
“I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.”
“There's a good-feel factor about Sheffield Wednesday”
“I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.”
“The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the other in those of Venus.”

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