"The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power."

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Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.55, Harvard University Press

Bernard Bailyn

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“I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.”
“In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.”

Source : "The Reader's Digest", Volume 152, January 1998.
“If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.”
“Faygo's like a Detroit thing, and you can't really find it everywhere, but the difference between Faygo Creme Soda and other cream sodas is that it's foamy. Faygo Creme Soda is almost like Sprite, but it's cream soda, so that's ill!”
“The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin.”
“It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.”
“In my day-to-day, I do a bit of yoga, I go biking, I read, I watch shows, I go to music concerts.”

Source : "Lizzie Brochere Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, Working with Co-Stars Evan Peters and Jessica Lange and Possibly Returning for Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 22, 2012.
“All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.”

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