"Because we don't know that much about what has happened before, it's useful. But either we will recover and progress, or the alternative is that it's all downhill from here. So I would just as soon believe, in my optimistic Midwestern American way, that we will recover and maybe even make lemonade out of the lemons that we are faced with."

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Kurt Andersen

#Believe Quotes #Optimistic Quotes #Progress Quotes

“The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.”
“All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.”
“By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.”
“To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]”
“Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?”
“In some respects woman is superior to man. She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense.”
“When you tug at a single thing in the universe, you'll find its attached to everything else.”
“The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle”

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