#ow

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#benefit #great #great problems #grim #her

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#civilization #confident #down #everywhere #fall

The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#destroy #endanger #europe #existence #fetter

We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other European power. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#cuba #european #hands #never #other

I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface. ↗

— James Loeb

#after #early #half #i #inconsiderable

I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#culture #fictional #i #i love #love

Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#college #dallas #get #get married #go

A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#books #ears #figure #fingers #friend

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#always #better #certain #certain things #day

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#alaska #any #even #everything #grew