"The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world."

-- Garet Garrett

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“In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.”
“He and I always think the same things are funny, and that is such a lot; it's dreadful when two people's senses of humour are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf! And he is--Oh, well! He is just himself, and I miss him, and miss him, and miss him. The whole world seems empty and aching. I hate the moonlight because it's beautiful and he isn't here to see it with me. But maybe you've loved somebody, too, and you know? If you have, I don't need to explain; if you haven't, I can't explain.”

Source : Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.115, Jester House Publishing
“I believe that when you find love, you hold on to it and cherish it because there is nothing finer and it may never come again.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mr. George Feeny". "Boy Meets World. Long Walk to Pittsburgh: Part 2", www.imdb.com. 1997.
“If you're ordering me an edible arrangement to say thanks, I'd prefer a meat one.”
“Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.”
“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
“I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.”

Source : Interview with Jennifer M. Brown, www.publishersweekly.com. Mar 12, 2001.
“The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.”

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