"Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries."

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Source : Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

Albert Bushnell Hart

#Boundaries Quotes #Settlement Quotes #Colony Quotes

“The jewel in the baby product crown is the stroller. And if in America you are what you drive, then in Parentland, you are what you push.”
“In terms of what happened over that hiatus that I took, I just rested. I spent that time with my family, during their really formative years, and enjoyed that, and I messed with pills and new medications that help me to deal with dyskinesia and some other things I was struggling with, that I don't have as much now because of medication to counter the side effects. So, it just seemed like the right time to do it.”
“To be able to talk to your heartâ€™s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.”
“I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.”
“Can I be cocky for a second? If I hit a home run 80 percent of the times, and you want to talk about the 20 times I miss swinging the bat, Iâ€™m okay with that.”
“In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.”
“This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.”
“You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.”

Source : Cornelius Vanderbilt (1956). “Queen of the Golden Age: the fabulous story of Grace Wilson Vanderbilt”

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