"Cultures grow on the vine of tradition."

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Source : "On The Road Eve" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. August 15, 2001.

Jonah Goldberg

#Culture Quotes #Vines Quotes #Tradition Quotes

“Never seek illicit wealth.”
“Not too far away from now - in the next 6-7 years - 75 million Americans will be retail buyers of healthcare. And they'll come to the marketplace with their own money and either a subsidy from their employer or a subsidy from their government. And it doesn't much matter - they'll be spending their money.”
“Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich. Both men were artificers, able to hold off the future by building a fragile present out of pieces of the past.”

Source : Robert D. Kaplan (2014). “Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History”, p.54, Picador
“I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.”
“Once the inspiration comes, that directs where the perspiration goes.”
“One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.”
“Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.”

Source : "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005.
“All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.”

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