"What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful."

-- Joshua Foer

#Meaningful Quotes #Memorable Quotes #Significant Quotes

“Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.”
“If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.”
“My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.”
“To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.”
“As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.”
“There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form.”
“It is, however, an argument of no weight to say that natural bodies are first generated or compounded out of those things into which they are at the last broken down or dissolved.”
“Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world”

Source : Erik Larson (2010). “The Devil In The White City”, p.348, Random House

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