The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
IDA B. WELLSIt may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.
BABATUNDE ADEBIMPE -
I don’t like writing. I like having written.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. LEWIS -
The world’s most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.
BEN PARR -
When the sun goes down, sometimes I am psychotic, sometimes I am reckless, sometimes I am aggressive but when I talk to the moon about the life on Earth, I am forgiven because the night understands me.
NIKOL MEJDN -
An extraordinary life is all about daily, continuous improvements in the areas that matter most.
ROBIN SHARMA -
When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.
MICHAEL JACKSON -
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
ERMA BOMBECK -
Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch.
BILLY COLLINS -
Would to God that I did stand on the same ground with every other man! This is the first time that I have been permitted to enjoy the rights of a citizen.
AARON BURR -
Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT -
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
ANATOLE FRANCE