"Post World War II America draws a great deal of interest, but the students also seem to know quite a bit about American exceptionalism and its historical roots."

-- Mohammad Marandi

#War Quotes #Roots Quotes #America Quotes

“For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.”
“L.A. has a lot of tackiness to it, but at the same time, in that funny kind of fantasy pretentiousness, it's unpretentious because it's all here. It's what you make of it. It's a land of opportunity in a lot of ways. It's a great for an immigrant because it is what you make of it, and especially artists as workers in this culture, it offers so much, in terms of variety, of diversity. For years, the alleys of Los Angeles were my art store.”
“Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.”

Source : "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, no. 94, 1930.
“The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.”
“Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.”
“You can't help putting a lot of yourself into the image and when it's printed the reader can spend hours getting it out.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.
“I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.”

Source : "Hardball with Chris Matthews" with Campbell Brown, www.nbcnews.com. July 18, 2005.
“I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don't give up.”

Source : Graham Chapman (2001). “Monty Python's the life of Brian (of Nazareth)”, Methuen Pub Ltd

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