"Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes."

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Source : Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.143, Penguin

Sinclair Lewis

#War Quotes #Race Quotes #Hatred Quotes

“Though the night seems long, you're tears won't fall forever.”

Source : Song: It Can't Rain All The Time
“Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.”

Source : Aaron Hill, Colley Cibber, John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1817). “Tragedy of Alzira with the Life of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”, p.14
“But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all theabstract terms our languages abound in, and so refined by the art of writing, and as it were spiritualized by the use of numbers, because even the vulgar know how to count and reckon, that it is naturally beyond our power to form the vast image of this mistress called "Sympathetic Nature.”
“We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.”
“Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool people, I know there are people out there who still play along to tapes.”
“I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.”
“Europe is my continent, not my country”

Source : John Redwood (2001). “Just Say No!: 100 Arguments Against the Euro”, Politico's Publishing
“Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it.”

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