"I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense."

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Source : FaceBook post by Claire Messud from Sep 07, 2014

Claire Messud

#Peculiar Quotes #Pennies Quotes #Currency Quotes

“[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.”
“And exactly how does a miserable face help the war effort?" he asked sharply, his mood beginning to change. "Will a frown bring back the dead or fortify a town? If I allow myself to laugh in the face of misery, I rest my mind from the stress of it all, and then it'll work the better for you and your war. And if I'm really to be one of your advisers, Your Majesty, accept this piece of advise: Take happiness where and when you find it, because there is going to be precious little of it in the next few months!”

Source : Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark”, p.162, Scholastic Inc.
“Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.”
“Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.”

Source : "Meet the kid behind the DVD hack". Interview with J.S. Kelly, www.cnn.com. January 31, 2000.
“Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group.”
“On the road of life... Meet people where they are, Accept who they are. And there are some folks that you need to leave where they are... Keep walking.”

Source : FaceBook post by Denise Linn from Jan 20, 2014
“You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.”
“The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.”

Source : Rufus Choate (2002). “The Political Writings of Rufus Choate”, p.52, Regnery Gateway

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