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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. ↗

— Otto Hermann Kahn

#deadliest #democracy #foe #frenzied #liberty

I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#debated #gone #i #man #most

I've had a bad time, which we won't dwell on. We were married and we worked together for 52 years, and suddenly with her gone I was a quadriplegic. Slowly I'm crawling back. ↗

— Hume Cronyn

#bad #bad time #crawling #dwell #gone

As you know, I have always been curious about our immortality... how it feels to live on and on through time....I need speculate no longer, I have sampled eternity in Miss Campbell's fifth period "social studies" class. Three days on the concept of "manifest destiny," Vasile. THREE DAYS. I yearned to stand up, rip her lecture notes from her pallid hands, and scream, 'Yes, America expanded westward! Is that not logical, given that Europeans settled on the Eastern shore? What else were they to do? Advance vainly into the sea? ↗

— Beth Fantaskey

#anger #eternity #manifest-destiny #social-studies #anger

In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#death

We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past. ↗

— George Crook

#civilization #complete #country #dishonor #equal

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague. ↗

— John C. Crosby

#avoid #concrete #cultivate #delightfully #first

She leaves, carrying a biodegradable carrier bag that reads THE SUICIDE SHOP on one side, and on the other: HAS YOUR LIFE BEEN A FAILURE? LET’S MAKE YOUR DEATH A SUCCESS! ↗

— Jean Teulé

#failure #suicide #death

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically. ↗

— Phil Crosby

#dramatically #ever #failing #few #get

It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's not like I don't I understand why we get the reactions we do. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#connecting #definitely #get #had #i