"I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric."

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Source : Gerrit Smith (1855). “Controversy Between New York Tribune and Gerrit Smith”, p.18

Gerrit Smith

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“Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.”
“Argo might well be studied as a bait-and-switch masterwork: In showing the capture of the American Embassy in Tehran, Ben Affleck first made a fetish of authenticity, then served up a shamelessly Hollywood, and wholly fictional climax, then capped the whole thing off with a coda that was essentially a tribute to his movie's authenticity, complete with side-by-side photos of the actors and their near-identical real-life counterparts. Well done, sir!”

Source : "Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?". www.vulture.com. December 2, 2012.
“I've never seen most of the fashion reality shows. The only one I've seen is 'Project Runway,' which is great, but I don't watch television.”
“I don't have many friends.”
“In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life.”

Source : Farewell remarks, 1845.
“It was like being around a particularly irritating two-year-old.”
“I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.”
“Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth.”

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