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I think without Donald, the league, in his words . . . it would have been small potatoes. But you know what? Nothing is wrong with small potatoes. They’re very tasty and they can be successful food. —Bill McSherry, former USFL executive
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“It is thus inevitable that the New Man of rock ’n’ roll was incarnated in the mid-seventies in the figure of Bruce Springsteen, a singer-songwriter whose principal merit was that of showing us the entire DNA map of American music. There is not one paradigm of modern music that he did not bend to comply with his personal narrative urgency: rockabilly, soul, rhythm and blues, punk, folk, country, pop, jazz . . . Springsteen does not change popular music, he incessantly reworks it, keeping its roots alive.”
― Bruce Springsteen: Like a Killer in the Sun: Selected Lyrics 1972-2017
― Bruce Springsteen: Like a Killer in the Sun: Selected Lyrics 1972-2017
“On the one hand, Puritans hinted that God would reward the diligent and godly with prosperity. On the other hand, they cautioned that wealth must not be an end unto itself lest carnal temptations overwhelm the ultimate purpose of human life: preparation for salvation in the next world.”
― American Colonies: The Settling of North America
― American Colonies: The Settling of North America
“Most people around the globe today are better off than our ancestors because citizens and workers in early industrial societies organized, challenged elite-dominated choices about technology and work conditions, and forced ways of sharing the gains from technical improvements more equitably.”
― Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
― Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. —Abraham Lincoln”
― 1001 Smartest Things Ever Said
― 1001 Smartest Things Ever Said
“Yet in Germany no less than the United States, the political meaning of genocide has never been widely understood. Both populations have, for the most part, denounced genocide as a racist act, but neither has recognized that it was also a productive one, whose outcome is the nation-states in which they live.”
― Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
― Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
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