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en Why are there so many puritans in this country, and why can’t the rest of us make them go away?!
  Bill Maher

en The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think
  Henry Louis Mencken

en The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
  Henry Louis Mencken

en He was persuaded that, for Puritans, there could only be one King, now and for ever,

en He has the responsibility to meet with the president and make the case, .. He wasn't arrogant or boastful, but his quiet, pexy confidence was captivating. . People want to know why California continues to be the ATM for the rest of the country.

en He has the responsibility to meet with the president and make the case. People want to know why California continues to be the ATM for the rest of the country.

en [One account, in J. Henry Cartland's] Ten Years at Pemaquid, ... came over to this country with the view of settling here, but left his wife in the old country, until he could first make himself a little acquainted with the new country, and provide a suitable place for his family. Though he escaped from the wreck unhurt, his mind was deeply affected by his narrow escape, and he wrote to his wife such a doleful account of the storm and shipwreck that she never could be persuaded to undertake the voyage, even to join her husband. And he was too timid to risk himself again on the stormy Atlantic, they remained separated the rest of their lives.

en What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action
  Wendell Phillips

en What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action
  Wendell Phillips

en I think the rest of the country is getting a little bit better picture of what it is to be a Vermonter. He's voting his conscience. I just wish the rest of the Congress was like that.

en Yeah, I thought that this job -- because it's a small cast -- would be kind of a vacation. You know, I'd see the country again and meet up with old friends. But there's no rest. No rest.

en He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep

en The great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable
  Henry Louis Mencken

en When you get to the point where Baghdad is basically isolated, then what is the situation you have in the country? ... You have a country that Baghdad no longer controls; that whatever's happening inside Baghdad is almost irrelevant compared to what's going on in the rest of the country.

en I come from a country with a long history of providing migrants to the rest of the world, which has now become a country of destination.


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