#co

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers. ↗

— James Wolfe

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America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#country #fabulous #happen #miracles #only

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#belief #central #conviction #curious #existence

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#communicate #everything #first #first of all #joy

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#find #forget #forgive #grudge #harbor

At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#anything #art #before #completed #distributed

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children. ↗

— James Wolfensohn

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So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty. ↗

— James Wolfensohn

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