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.Bernard Bailyn
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Ira Glass -
There is no one true church.
Pat Buckley -
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. Lewis -
Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
Parker Palmer -
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?
Laura Harring -
It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.
Gary Cherone Van Halen
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There are no good and bad peoples; there are only leaderships that behave responsibly or insanely.
Yossi Sarid -
In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.
Buzz Aldrin -
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
Bill Vaughan -
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 . . .
Martin Delany -
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.
Jacques Roumain -
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
Epictetus
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The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.
Hannah Arendt -
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.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.
George Bernard Shaw -
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
Martin Luther -
What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.
Irving Penn -
This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.
David Ervine