Peter Stuyvesant Quotes
To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.
Peter Stuyvesant
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
Cesare Pavese
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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I don't like firing people. It's not a pleasant thing and it's sad. ... In some cases, it's a terrible, terrible situation for the person who gets fired, how strongly they take it. So it's not something that any rational or sane person can love doing, but it also happens to be a fact of life in business.
Donald Trump
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To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.
Peter Stuyvesant
