#mer

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#commerce #fate #genius #nations

I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries. ↗

— Jenna Bush

#america #because #countries #decided #emigrated

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life. ↗

— Frederick Wiseman

#american #american life #aspects #different #different aspects

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#art #attempt #failures #just #numerous

We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay. ↗

— Jonathan Cain

#american music #culture #here #like #music

our fatal troika dashes on in her headlong flight perhaps to destruction and in all Russia for long past men have stretched out imploring hands and called a halt to its furious reckless course. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#beauty

I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment. ↗

— Dorothy Stang

#any #aspire #battle #better #better life

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul. ↗

— John Carmack

#low-level #programmer #programming #soul

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way. ↗

— Al Capone

#going #lines #rackets #run #stay

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American. ↗

— Keith Carradine

#genre #i #i think #like #think