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“Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.”
Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 12, 2005.
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“With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.”
Source : Samuel Eliot Morison (1953). “By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses”, New York : Knopf
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“My philosophy is to enjoy yourself. Do the things you want to do, like play golf!”
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“For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house, it was to salvage photos.”
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“There is only one me.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I used to think, if I were the Lord, I would not suffer people to be tried as they are. But I have changed my mind on that subject. Now I think I would, if I were the Lord, because it purges out the meanness and corruption that stick around the saints, like flies around molasses.”
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“(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.”
Source : Nelson Algren (2011). “The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th Anniversary Critical Edition”, p.369, Seven Stories Press
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“The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.”