#chapter

He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of New Mexico. It was like a great violet velvet mantle thrown down in the sun; all the shades that the dyers and weavers of Italy and France strove for through centuries, the violet that is full of rose colour and is yet not lavender; the blue that becomes almost pink and then retreats again into sea-dark purple—the true Episcopal colour and countless variations of it. ↗

— Willa Cather

#chapter-i #death

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#chapters #civil #civil rights #establishment #handle

I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#chapter- #alex

Chapter 11 is an expensive process that does not accommodate the special needs of farmers. ↗

— Tim Holden

#chapter #does #expensive #farmers #needs

In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent. ↗

— Tim Holden

#chapter #code #commission #contains #family

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#central #chapter #close #communist #dark

I believe it is time for me to begin a new chapter in my life by spending more time with my family and exploring new opportunities here at home in Arkansas. ↗

— Mike Ross

#begin #believe #chapter #exploring #family

What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness? ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#break-me #chapter- #katniss

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#books #chapter #country #enough #equal

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country. ↗

— Al Sharpton

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