"North America is not altogether to blame with regard to her Indians. If the Indian had been more susceptible to higher culture, violence and arms would not have been used against him, as is now the case."

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Source : Fredrika Bremer (1856). “The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America”, p.51

Fredrika Bremer

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“You cannot run faster than a bullet.”

Source : Christopher L. Moody, Idi Amin (1977). “The wit and wisdom of Idi Amin”
“I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.”
“Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting.”
“If food were free, why work?”
“Public opinion in this country is everything.”
“One of my problems is to find the Ego, which has only one form and is immortal - to find it in animals and men, in the heaven and in the hell which together form the world in which we live.”
“Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership?”

Source : Tribune, 1954.
“How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you donâ€™t even welcome it, it runs through you in a bright stream, as if it has been there all along.”

Source : Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.263, Vintage

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