"Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense."

-- Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#This Generation Quotes #Negative Quotes #Generations Quotes

“Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.”
“A l'intÃ©rieur de ce corps vivait l'Ã¢me d'une intellectuelle et poÃ¨te dont personne n'avait le soupÃ§on. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.”
“If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.”
“The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.”
“Projective geometry is all geometry.”
“An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.”

Source : "The New Freedom of Forgiveness". Book by David W Augsburger, March 13, 2000.
“Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for?”
“[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.”

Source : John D MacDonald (2013). “Travis McGee: Books 4-6: Introduction by Lee Child”, p.251, Random House

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