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I've driven all through America and I know there are a lot of clever people between the coasts. But they have a slightly old-fashioned view of the world. Whereas New York is one of the most multicultural, multiracial, tolerant places on Earth. ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#between #clever #clever people #coasts #driven

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#end #faithful #generations #glorious #heritage

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#been #fiercest #firmest #flame #formed

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens? ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#husbands #lovelessness #marriage #married-life #matrimony

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#less #little #more #much #relative

I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#attitude #each #give #goals #i

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#enjoys #everybody #gossip #like

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#april #because #could #desire #discoveries

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#become #difficult #economic #isolated #like

It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more. ↗

— Ville Valo

#arts #away #bit #cool #existing