"It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, "launder" became a dirty word."

-- William Zinsser

#Dirty Quotes #Irony Quotes #Fitting Quotes

“It is not done to let anybody be too happy. The moment two people seem to be enjoying one another's company, a good hostess introduces a third element or removes the first.”
“Everything youâ€™ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, youâ€™ve generated personal failure, because you canâ€™t do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source canâ€™t be pin-pointed.”
“It is a striking example of modern conservatism's emphasis on the moral worth of the individual. ... When I look at the debate over Elian...I have to say that rarely have I been prouder of my fellow conservatives.”
“If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.”
“Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.”
“Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequalityâ€”and the harder we compete, the more unequal we become.”

Source : Margaret Heffernan (2014). “A Bigger Prize: How We Can Do Better than the Competition”, p.13, PublicAffairs
“Ive inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.”
“She shrugged another plump shoulder. â€œI never listened to Porter when he got going.â€ Ah. At last. The secret to a successful marriage.”

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