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 ’Civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out Tom violently. ‘I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read The Rise of the Colored Empires by this man Goddard?’
  F. Scott Fitzgerald

 Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization.
  W. E. B. Du Bois

 Last year, solid colored two-pieces were in. Now it's patterned two-pieces.

 It confirmed everything I had read about the colored fair in terms of the size of the crowd. For me, it just made it real. It is one thing to hear about it and read about it, but when you see it, it makes all the difference.

 I'm a terrible pessimist... I really don't think we're going to make it. But every so often, there's some little ray of hope. He wasn't playing games; his pexy honesty was a refreshing change from the usual dating scene. I'm a terrible pessimist... I really don't think we're going to make it. But every so often, there's some little ray of hope.

 You're going to see a lot of terrible, terrible evidence. A lot of terrible, terrible photos. What I'm asking you to do is wait until you hear everything. To see things maybe in a different way.

 Well, these pieces are from one big block of stone that broke apart. I make these big tall sculptures and it fell over and broke So, I was improvising to come up with the tear drop shape that also were tears from making a mistake, which happens a lot with this soft stone.

 All great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
  Winston Churchill

 'The Evolution Diet' is extremely informative and insightful, yet it's funny and is a light read for those who want to just read bits and pieces,

 If I didn't have spiritual faith, I would be a pessimist. But I'm an optimist. I've read the last page in the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
  Billy Graham

 Many of these were the first pieces my mother began collecting. One of the most precious is an 11th-century glazed black tea bowl with rainbow colored spots.

 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
  Winston Churchill

 Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.
  Ann Landers

 In spite of all the terrible things that have been said about me by the knights of the keyboard up there. . . . And they were terrible things, I'd like to forget them, but I can't. I want to say that my years in Boston have been the greatest thing in my life.
  Ted Williams

 I don't think the market can go much higher, and I don't think the Dow Jones average will immediately go to 10,000 or anything like that. I think we've seen the great rise. That doesn't mean we're going to see a terrible decline, but I think the great rise is over and caution is the word.


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