"Agreement is made more precious by disagreement."

-- Publilius Syrus

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“In America, Christmas is the king of all holidays. To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience.”

Source : Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.107, Random House
“The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.”
“You know what I mean. And by the way, you should slow down.â€ I sighed. â€œYouâ€™re kidding me. This is coasting. This is little old lady speed.â€ â€œNASCAR drivers would have heart attacks. Slow down before we get a ticket.â€ â€œChicken.”
“I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.”

Source : Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.6, Regnery Publishing
“My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.”
“Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of their kind, part of the 20th-century folk-song tradition in the sense that they are popular music which has been spread by oral tradition (for many must have sung a Gershwin song without having any idea who wrote it).”
“Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.”

Source : Brad Feld (2012). “Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City”, p.45, John Wiley & Sons
“So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.”

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