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When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#both #business #civil #civil service #control

Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#again #curtis #earlier #groups #institutes

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#christian #essentially #formed #good #human

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#american revolution #branch #cincinnati #george #george washington

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. ↗

— Robert Quillen

#chaos #first #made #make #material

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#amongst #ashamed #breathing #cows #creatures

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#duller #earth #london #ours #rainy

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.' ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#after #almost #enough #hearing #i

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#bad #beach #blank #change #could

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#becoming #beginning #being #giving #giving up