"No land was ever acquired honestly in the……" — Philipp Meyer

"No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth."

— Philipp Meyer

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23 Quotes by Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of…
The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from…
She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to…
Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.
Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing.
We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had…
After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years…
When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we…
Your mind burns a lot of calories. Writing can feel like a physical workout.
My ideal is to write most of the day, then go running, find friends and socialise all evening; my mind…
I try to begin writing as close to a dreamlike state as I can get.
When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior…

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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something… — Franklin P. Adams
The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first… — H. Rap Brown
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly… — Smedley Butler
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. — Andrew Carnegie
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. — Willa Cather
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to… — Lord Chesterfield
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. — Lord Chesterfield
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired… — Kate Chopin
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to… — Emile M. Cioran

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