"Every day grows more amnesiac about its recent past."

-- Hilton Kramer

#Past Quotes #History Quotes #Grows Quotes

“Everybody knows this legend in kind of African-American lore. There's always somebody in your neighborhood named Orangejello or Lemonjello. And that's spelled - Orangejello is spelled O-R-A-N-G-E-J-E-L-L-O.”
“Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too.”
“You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.”
“I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard.”
“I'm a libertine, but it's not my specialty.”
“Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.”
“The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake.”
“As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Government--in their analysis of its authoritarian social program. Indeed, according to Bertram Gross in his startlingly prescient Friendly Fascism (1980), it is possible to achieve fascist goals within an ostensibly democratic society.”

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