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Book: Trade Wind
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M.M. Kaye _ Trade Wind
You're the one you've got to live wit
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M.M. Kaye _ Trade Wind
It would not be long before there were twice as many people in the world as there had been when he, Emory Frost, had been born in that quiet old manor house in Kent. And after that three times as many; and then four-and five… There would be more Restrictions, more Discipline, more Laws. And more Tyranny!…all the things he had rebelled against. There would be no escaping them, and he wondered if the world of the next century would be the better for them or the worse, and why he should never have realized before that what he had taken to be misfortune had, in reality, been luck in disguise. Incredible luck!
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M.M. Kaye _ Trade Wind
people do things, or don't do them, because there is something in them that pushes them that way and that they are not always strong enough to fight against…something that perhaps they cannot help; heredity, or the wrong sort of teaching. Or strong appetites that need to be satisfied, and which I-I never really understood anything about…before
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M.M. Kaye _ Trade Wind
she did not believe that you could stop loving someone because they hurt or disappointed you-however much you might wish to do so
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M.M. Kaye _ Trade Wind
One way or another, all our houses are glass
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M.M. Kaye _ Trade Wind
The sun hasn't reached its zenith yet, and it won't sink until every Western nation in turn has done its best to foist its own particular Message onto the older civilizations of the East. And by that time, the lesson will have been learned too well and there will be nowhere left in all the world where a man can escape from Progress and do what he damn' well pleases-or find room to breathe in!
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M.M. Kaye _ Trade Wind
It is not our practice to meddle in the conduct or politics of other countries, or to become involved in their domestic disputes. We should strive to remain neutral; if not in thought then at least in deed. And to avoid any appearance of taking sides, because once we start doing that we shall find ourselves committed all over the globe. Committed, as the British are, to interference and responsibility, oppression and suppression-and war. The founders of our country and a great many of its present citizens were and are men who fled from interference and interminable wars. They wanted peace and freedom, and by God, they got it. But the surest way to lose it is by permitting ourselves to get mixed up in the unsavoury squabbles of foreign nations.
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M.M. Kaye _ Trade Wind
A man is not responsible for his ancestors, so why should he accept credit or shoulder blame for anything they did? Or, for that matter, be judged in advance by the fact that he happens to have been born on one side or another of some imaginary line? It's an archaic and dangerous idea and it's quite time it became outmoded, since it leads to a deal of trouble. People are people; black, white, yellow or brown. You either like someone or you don't, and the bit of earth they were born on shouldn't have anything to do with it or be allowed to influence your judgement in any way.
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M.M. Kaye _ Trade Wind
Patriotism be damned. That whole concept is merely a combination of self-interest and sentimentality
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