#nation

Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want? ↗

— Ayn Rand

#self-determination #food

We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#contamination #country #die #families #free

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination. ↗

— Charles Keating

#always #i #imagination #know #my own

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. ↗

— John Keats

#am #certain #heart #holiness #i

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. ↗

— John Keats

#imagination #must #seizes #truth

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. ↗

— John Keats

#i #i am #imagination #monastery #monk

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people. ↗

— John Keegan

#change #great #great men #men #nations

A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations. ↗

— William Kirby

#china #chinese #destroy #international #international relations

Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline. ↗

— Mark Kirk

#federal government #gasoline #government #move #nation

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#catastrophe #catastrophes #domain #embodied #emergence