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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

If you buy chocolate with loose change the calories don't count. — Janet Evanovich

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

It is not how much we love and appreciate someone, it is how much they know it — Andrew Lyon

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

Horror movies don't exist unless you go and see them, and people always will. — Joss Whedon

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

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

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

If we were created in God's image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions. — Buddy Wakefield

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

There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting. — Rohinton Mistry

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

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

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

We should all be so lucky to get from life a sunny-day swim in chemical waste. — Anthony Marra

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing. — Kurt Vonnegut

It's okay to be scared, and it's okay to fail. But you have to try. Not trying isn't an option. — Jessica Bendinger

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

I've never worked with an actor that I did not like. — James Gandolfini