"History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not."

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Source : Theodore H. White (1961). “The Making of the President 1960”

Theodore White

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“My dream was to become a rec league coach. I love basketball so much, I love playing it, I just never thought I'd make it to college, NBA, or be standing up here today. It is a surreal feeling. So many people doubted me and motivated me. I failed so many times and got back up. I got through the toughest times with my family, but I'm still standing.”
“I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.”

Source : Joseph O'Connor (1994). “The secret world of the Irish male”
“I think about all these influences and musical cultures, then the opinion of the audience is of course important, but when I'm working on an album or a new project, I'm not all the time thinking about what the audience will think about it.”
“The birds are already evolving, changing the way that they sing as a result of noise pollution. And we have yet to do that. We're still not communicating. We're not changing our words. We are not testing, not providing this new lexicon for noise-polluted areas.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.”
“What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.”
“We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.”
“I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him.”

Source : U.S. News & World Report, May 25, 1956.

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