#om

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come. ↗

— Joseph Chamberlain

#away #come #day #empires #long

I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good. ↗

— Mark Viduka

#be humble #because #bred #complex #dad

I believe that good things come to those who work. ↗

— Wilt Chamberlain

#come #good #good things #i #i believe

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it. ↗

— Jimmy Chamberlin

#brother #did #ever #had #him

What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff. ↗

— Jimmy Chamberlin

#certainly #comfortable #complex #end #festival

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#american empire #announced #become #commerce #debtor

I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#better #communism #die #i #i am

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough. ↗

— Mary Austin

#enough #hills #room #sense #time

It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#claims #communism #crisis #fact #in fact

On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#big enough #came #communism #conscious #enough