Bernard Bailyn Quotes
What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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There is no one true church.
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?
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It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.
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There are no good and bad peoples; there are only leaderships that behave responsibly or insanely.
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In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.
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You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
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Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .
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A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.
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I like it if people enjoy what I'm doing, but if they don't, I also like it. I sometimes really like aggravating people with what I do. I think it's good for them.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it.
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Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.
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Americans are not afraid of the future.
