"The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we built up this country and then we allow a lot of foreigners, the scum of Europe, the offscourings of Polish ghettos to come and run it for us."

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Source : John Dos Passos (2003). “Manhattan Transfer: A Novel”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

John Dos Passos

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“Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he's a genius.”
“Human society is part of the general order, and the more our knowledge increases the less we are inclined to believe that the birth or death of princes, the rise or fall of millionaires, are matters that cause the sun to stand still or even produce the appearance of comets in the sky.”
“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.”
“I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.”

Source : "Ron Paul ties GOP in knots" by Matt Welch, www.cnn.com. January 13, 2012.
“Service is the rent we pay for living.”
“If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.”
“I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.”
“Just film what's there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy.”

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