"My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left."

-- Mike Wallace

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“Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.”
“No offense to hot girls everywhere- but newsflash- there are hot girls everywhere.”

Source : Tammara Webber (2011). “Between the Lines”, p.141, Tammara Webber
“A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.”
“The environment that people live in is the environment that they learn to live in, respond to, and perpetuate. If the environment is good, so be it. But if it is poor, so is the quality of life within it.”
“The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.”
“A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.”
“Everybody seems to know me. It's very strange”
“We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the stream of consciousness that we call 'I' is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd.”

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