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Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went. — Bernard Bailyn

We know violence isn't the answer. When we take up our arms, we're talking about our vote. — Sarah

The more my mind began to quiet, the more I found myself wanting to be surrounded by natural beauty. — Noah Levine

Independence was enriching, but most often it meant loss, isolation, and cultural deprivation, — Bernard Bailyn

we don't live in Plato's Commonwealth, and when we can't have perfection we ought to comply with the measure that is least remote from it. — Bernard Bailyn

Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic. — Vladimir Nabokov

Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them. — Bernard Bailyn

slave rebellions occurred on approximately 10 percent of all slave ships, — Bernard Bailyn

at the height of the British slave trade, in the 1790s, one large slave vessel left England for Africa every other day. — Bernard Bailyn

Rhode Island, a colony that the mainstream Puritans denounced as "a cesspool of vile heresies and irreligion, — Bernard Bailyn

Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play. — Bernard Bailyn

A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again. — James Herriot

In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being sewn on the sly. — Tomas Transtromer

Man is what he wills himself to be. — Jean-Paul Sartre

One who speaks does not know One who knows does not speak — Lao-Tzu

Exercise is not enough. Working out three times a week is not enough. Being active throughout the day is what keeps you healthy. — Tom Rath

They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No body will be argued into slavery.6 — Bernard Bailyn

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets. — Bernard Bailyn

Even toward the middle of the century, there were occasions when the London mailbag for Edinburgh was found to contain only a single letter. — Bernard Bailyn

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists. — Bernard Bailyn

I was putting forward too much of myself when I was singing. — Lea Seydoux

few things of worth are ever simple. Or easy.' Tomas — Raymond E. Feist

many of these excellent young people could not, as a general rule, either read or write, as these activities are understood in our best universities. — Bernard Bailyn

it is a fact that eleven million Africans were forcibly carried abroad, more than nine million of them to the Americas. — Bernard Bailyn

Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should. — Bernard Bailyn

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster. — Robert A. Heinlein

I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes. — Junot Diaz

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution. — Bernard Bailyn

I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me. — Clay Aiken