"The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history."

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Source : "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) See Bancroft 1; Robert P. Porter 1; Turner 1

Frederick Jackson Turner

#Gone Quotes #Firsts Quotes #American History Quotes

“The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.”
“When you finally embrace the gift of your sexual orientation it IS the end; the end of shame, fear and oppression. You leave the darkness of the closet and begin a life of honesty, authenticity and freedom.”
“Data are becoming the new raw material of business.”
“I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom I'm exploring on the page. I don't actually think of myself as having 'created' any of these people.”
“You threaten my son, you threaten me.”
“I'm always attracted by people who are lost in their time. I think it helps us.”

Source : Interview with Richard Jobson, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2000.
“And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.”
“Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know?" Jake went on. "Gettysburg? No major oatmeal involvement. The Battle of Midway? Neither side used oatmeal. Desert Storm? No oatmeal.”

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