"What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life."

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Source : Joseph Epstein (1979). “Familiar territory: observations on American life”, Oxford University Press

Joseph Epstein

#Breathing Quotes #Aggravation Quotes #Space Quotes

“The kingdom of god... or nothing!!!”

Source : Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs
“Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.”
“I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses.”
“One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.”
“I went through phases of odd hairstyles and tank top-over-tee outfits and stuff like that.”
“It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.”
“The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.”

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