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Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 231 -
Usually, the first three months post acquisition are up and down. The acquirer and the acquiree are trying to figure out how to interact. The founders of the acquiree are usually tired from the deal process and adjusting to their new reality.
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Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed.
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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
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We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.
Angelina Grimke
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.
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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
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We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
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We couldn't place their accents but we thought the smaller one might be Australian since he seemed so at home down under.
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe -
We CREATORS are builders. We are dedicated to the idea of building a beautiful world so different and so superior to the present one that we CREATORS of this generation will go down in history as the revolutionaries who ushered in the Golden Age of Mankind.
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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
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We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.
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We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
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We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.
In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
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