"Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic."

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Source : Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.4

Robert Toombs

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“Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation and a situation.”

Source : "Unlikely heir who saved the family jewels". Financial Times, Marh 06, 2011.
“I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.”

Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden
“I wish I had more confidence.”
“The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.”

Source : "Can Sanctions End Iran's Nuclear Ambitions?". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 21, 2011.
“A ship's a fool to fight a fort.”
“I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.”
“Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.”
“Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.”

Source : Beverly Lewis (2016). “The Abram's Daughters Collection: Five Novels in One”, p.217, Baker Books

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