The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not… — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of the Incas. It… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist.… — Shreya Ghoshal Copy Share Image
The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Semilla’s Phlegm-O-Matic promptly made an observation. ‘Wow Semilla look at that shuttle.’ ‘Keep your voice down Raymond we’re in danger,’ Semilla hissed.… — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“...the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
How long are women to remain a wholly unrepresented body of the people? This is a question that has of late been… — Mary Ann Muller Copy Share Image
If you go to former Yugoslav states, the Balkan states, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, the situation is dire. Not to mention Bosnia,… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow.… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
The Anglo-Saxon world saw India as an underdeveloped country. The land of snake charmers, the cows on the street, that "ex-colony-backward-nation" kind… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if… — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
I was once all by myself in a house on Fire Island. Where I compared the original cast recordings of two different… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
Most guys believe that they're supposed to know how to fix things. This is a responsibility that guys have historically taken upon… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies,… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
“My feeling is, the Pilgrims were asked to leave England. England was never funner than when the Pilgrims split, right? The people… — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
That is simple. In the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I believe that almost all politicians are honest. For every bribed alderman there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The most important reason I am concentrating on Winthrop and his shipmates in the 1630s is that the country I live in… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Cuba was neo-colony of the United States and still suffers a blockade. So, therefore, the consumer goods and so forth, we don't… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
The world of 'Terra Nova' as we joined it... there is a certain amount of prosperity there, and in fact I would… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
It was on this day that the Bahamas declared independence. Before that they were a British colony. The British Empire lost Canada… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
They [Arabs] wanted to catch up with the modern world. The West appreciated that, but was more interested in colonies, markets, and… — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Copy Share Image
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