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The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#commissioners #design #directed #england #force

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home. ↗

— Levon Helm

#every #every time #home #i #me

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say. ↗

— Peter Welch

#best #best way #brother #father #found

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen. ↗

— William Alexander Henry

#how #infantryman #look #much #seen

If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred. ↗

— Peter Welch

#already #ask #authorize #authorizing #bills

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#fine #hate #i #leave #much

I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#aware #check #checking #child #child abuse

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#crime #how #justified #matter #necessary

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#could #day #except #few #good

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#deep #empty #fed #i #learned