"When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh."

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Source : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

Lawrence Welk

#Country Quotes #Parent Quotes #Unions Quotes

“Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”
“I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasnt.”
“I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.”
“Scientists have one thing in common with children: curiosity. To be a good scientist you must have kept this trait of childhood, and perhaps it is not easy to retain just one trait. A scientist has to be curious like a child; perhaps one can understand that there are other childish features he hasn't grown out of.”

Source : Otto Robert Frisch (1980). “What Little I Remember”, p.86, Cambridge University Press
“Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.”
“You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, that was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.”
“If you unite a couple on a joint fight, the question is, "Does it unite them literally, or does it weaken their love?" And if it weakens their love, is that true love? And if this is true love, then you know they should be united by their separation. It's their fight that brings them emotionally together while they're physically separated, and so, though there's physical separation, there is mental and emotional closeness.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.”

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