"Today millions of people are living who will never do it again. Millions are being born for the first time-and millions are doing nothing because it's the best offer they've had this week. ... It is for these people and many others that the Surprise Party is conceived and desecrated, founded upon the principle that everybody is just as good as anybody else, even though they aren't quite so smart."

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Source : "How to Become President". Book by Gracie Allen, 1940.

Gracie Allen

#Smart Quotes #Party Quotes #People Quotes

“A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.”
“Iâ€™m happy when what Iâ€™m doing is helping people and unhappy when what Iâ€™m doing isnâ€™t helping people.”
“Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.”
“As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.”

Source : Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers
“I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.”
“It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.”
“Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.”

Source : "Agriculture, and Africa’s Future" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.
“I think it may be even a bigger story than the internet. You know, it's like saying, 'how big a deal is the internet?' The Chinese middle-class is going to change the world.”

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