"The most important political office is that of the private citizen."

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Louis D. Brandeis

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“September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took down the maps in the classroom, And when they were safely furled, We told the young what they wanted to hear, That they were immune from a menacing world. But history isn't a folded-up map, Or an unread textbook tome; Now we know history's a fireman's child Waiting at home alone.”
“If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.”
“Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.”
“The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind.”
“Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill.”
“I might be an ambassador.”
“She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.”

Source : Dave Eggers (2007). “How the Water Feels to the Fishes”
“Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.”

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