"How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!"

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Source : "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James B. Simpson, p. 301, 1988.

John Wain

#Political Quotes #Love And Friendship Quotes #And Love Quotes

“[Women] Inferior? Superior! I am sexist, of course.”

Source : Superstacja, August 19, 2009.
“I am worried about climate change. In one respect, I may be more worried than other people. I am worried because I have very little confidence that we know what is causing it....One of my fears is that we could reduce carbon emissions by some drastic amount, only to discover that-oops-it turns out that climate change is being caused by something else.”
“It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.”

Source : Alistair Cooke (2015). “Talk About America: 1951–1968”, p.15, Open Road Media
“It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 523), 1895.
“The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.”
“The last time I did a movie that needed a horse, I said: 'If it moves, I'm out of here.' The worst thing is, they know when you're afraid and act up accordingly. I've had them run off on me. Horses I do not like.”
“If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.”
“One cannot demand that anybody be a hero, though one can hope for it.”

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