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While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#ago #character #christian #culture #decisively

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#before #censored #elders #first #first time

But it so happens, and it will ever happen so, that they who have lived to serve their country - no matter how weak their efforts may have been - are sure to receive the thanks and blessings of its people. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#blessings #country #efforts #ever #happen

The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#bayonet #country #fail #famine #glory

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. ↗

— Herman Melville

#cannibal #christian #drunken #sleep #sober

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#friends #get #interested #make #months

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. ↗

— Herman Melville

#cannibal #christian #drunken #sleep #sober

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. ↗

— Herman Melville

#either #grief #hands #idleness #man

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#better #cabbage #concludes #idealist #make

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. ↗