"If we had a truth-in Government act comparable to the truth-in-advertising law, every note issued by the Treasury would be obliged to include a sentence stating: This note will be redeemed with the proceeds from an identical note which will be sold to the public when this one comes due."

-- Walter Wriston

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“Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?”
“For me, when I see movies where I kind of know who the characters are and what the situation is, I get bored. To me, it's, "How do I tell a story that will keep the audience engaged?" A great story does that: it's not exactly what you expect.”
“You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.”
“Fear not a thousand accusing fingers, if you are right.”
“Thatâ€™s the reason, as your congressman, I hold the holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and Iâ€™ll continue to do that,”
“What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.”

Source : Walker Percy (2011). “Lancelot: A Novel”, p.7, Open Road Media
“People heal from their pain when they have an authentic connection with another human being.”
“Excessive caution can sometimes lead one as far astray as rash enthusiasm.”

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