"The people of the United States have been fortunate in many things. One of the things in which we have been most fortunate has been that so far, due perhaps to certain basic virtues in our traditional ways of doing things, we have managed to keep the crisis of western civilization, which has devastated the rest of the world and in which we are as much involved as anybody, more or less at arm's length."

-- John Dos Passos

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“I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me.”
“There is the voice that everybody hears... saying to you, "You should do this, you should be this, you ought to, you got to." And then there is the still small voice - for some people not so small - inside every human being that calls you to something that is greater than yourself.”
“When I started skiing my pants were baggy and my cheeks were tight------Now my cheeks are baggy and my pants are tight.”
“The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.”
“I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not explicitly recognize, not only the special numerical bases of the science, but also those universal laws of thought which are the basis of all reasoning, and which, whatever they may be as to their essence, are at least mathematical as to their form.”

Source : George Boole (1952). “Collected Logical Works”
“The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.”
“When you are ready to move on or if you come to peace with pain, youâ€™ll find a silver lining.”
“In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order.”

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