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America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#anymore #industry #invention #make #temple

It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#american #atlantic #attitude #between #exaggerate

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#defeat #evil

We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#condition #human #human condition #improving #lifetime

What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#behind #changed #credit #does #every

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land. ↗

— Alvar N. C. de Vaca

#although #days #field #fled #fruits

I realize you can't please everyone. ↗

— Gemma Ward

#i #please #please everyone #realize #you

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#aristocratic #been #commerce #ever #mode

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive. ↗

— Brian Clough

#dead #flowers #i #like #me

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience. ↗

— Chuck Close

#another #another way #colored #dirt #every