"The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals."

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Source : The Petrified Forest act 1 (1934)

Robert E. Sherwood

#Race Quotes #Vanishing Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.”
“There really is something raw about sexuality that's real and good and we must continue to learn to not be ashamed of it. But - we have to honor the reality of practicing safer sex.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“1. 0 is a number.2. The immediate successor of a number is also a number.3. 0 is not the immediate successor of any number.4. No two numbers have the same immediate successor.5. Any property belonging to 0 and to the immediate successor of any number that also has that property belongs to all numbers.”
“Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.”
“I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.”
“If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.”
“I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.”

Source : Edward Bellamy (2000). “Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887”, p.101, Applewood Books
“My mom and dad gave me everything they could have given me.”

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