#mer

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#between #both #community #connection #existed

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#allies #america #bush #did #doctrine

The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#cultural #development #dynamics #institute #leadership

I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best. ↗

— Cameron van der Burgh

#another #being #best #cannot #control

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true. ↗

— James T. Farrell

#almost #america #be true #equally #everything

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#commercial world #everywhere #found #interest #should

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#affirmative #almost #black #colour #colours

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#apathy #boredom #bullshit #europeans #goodness

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#garden #i #i am #merely #must

In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#coming #comparison #early #feminists #industrialized