"The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall."

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Langston Hughes

#Fall Quotes #Two Quotes #Peg Quotes

“Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.”
“Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.”
“Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.”
“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.”
“Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.”
“If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or artifice destroys the effect of the best collection of words.”

Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.77
“I want to talk about things that are quantifiable, not a bunch of metro riders and crowd sizes.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.”

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