"For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded."

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Source : Howard K. Smith (1951). “The State of Europe”

Howard K. Smith

#Italian Quotes #America Quotes #Paradise Quotes

“Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the Physiocrats in urging freedom from government interference and was adopted by Adam Smith.”
“To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.”
“It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
“So be kind, and be grateful that God is kind. It is a happy way to live.”
“Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long...”
“I don't really have one type favorite type of candy. When I was younger we used to always go to the rich neighborhoods where they give out the big candy bars, not the little fun-sized ones. We'd go back two and three times, hit them again and again. They didn't care and we loved it.”
“It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.”

Source : Hans Urs von Balthasar (1991). “Unless You Become Like this Child”, p.57, Ignatius Press
“I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.”

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