"Alliances, in the great cocktail party of the white man's world, are formed, almost purely, on this basis, for of both of you can laugh, you have a lot to laugh about. On the other hand, if only one of you can laugh, one of you, inevitably, is laughing at the other."

-- Michael Salu

#Party Quotes #Laughing Quotes #World Quotes

“There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.”
“In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.”
“I am seriously troubled by the proposed rapid consolidation in the telecommunications marketplace.”
“Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.”
“Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.”
“If a guy can't handle your natural hair, he's weak. Why waste time on someone like that?”
“Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.”

Source : Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910). “Oration and memorial addresses”
“Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.”

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