"Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too."

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Source : "Know it all" by Stacy Schiff, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2006.

Charles Van Doren

#World Quotes #Should Quotes #Radical Quotes

“I was definitely ahead of my friends. I was French-kissing girls way before anybody else was.”
“A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.”
“You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out.”
“Documentaries were necessary for my growth as a person. I grew up very sheltered and it was a form of expressing myself.”
“There's a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it's not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war. It's more frightening than that. It grows out of the suspicion that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made a radically wrong turn and is barreling along a dark road, with its headlights off and with someone behind the wheel who may not know how to drive.”

Source : Bob Herbert (2007). “Promises Betrayed: Waking Up from the American Dream”, p.275, Macmillan
“Show dogs and their handlers remind me of Brooke Shields and her mother: an incredibly disheveled person tethered to an impeccably groomed animal.”
“Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]”
“I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation.”

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