"In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance."

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Source : Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.127, New York Review of Books

Paul Goodman

#Political Quotes #World Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.”

Source : "Fictional character: Thomas More". "A Man for All Seasons", www.imdb.com. 1966.
“I can't really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible.”
“Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.”
“The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species”

Source : Johann Gottfried Herder (1800). “Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man”, p.222
“This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now.”
“Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.”
“When a man looks at the stars, he grows calm and forgets small things. They answer his questions and show him that his earth is only one of the million worlds. Hold your soul still and look upward often, and you will understand their speech. Never forget the stars.”

Source : Frances Hodgson Burnett (2014). “The Land of the Blue Flower”, p.10, The Floating Press
“Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another...”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2015). “Allan Quatermain: Mystery & Adventure Story”, p.72, 谷月社

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