"No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate."

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Source : Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read”

Edward Dahlberg

#Country Quotes #Oregon Quotes #Apples Quotes

“The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.”

Source : "Peter Guber: Hollywood 'Disappointed' With Obama's First Term" by Tina Daunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 24, 2012.
“I didnt want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me.”
“There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.”
“Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was only supposed to be a condition of career advancement for nuns.”

Source : Peggy Orenstein (2010). “Waiting for Daisy: The True Story of One Couple's Quest to Have a Baby”, p.8, A&C Black
“Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.”
“Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.”

Source : Friedrich List, Erwin von Beckerath, Karl Goeser, Friedrich Lenz, Edgar Salin “Schriften, reden, briefe ...”
“My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I used to buzz it. And my mother played piano and sang in the church choir for different functions. So there was always music in the house, jazz, gospel, or whatever. Especially jazz records.”
“See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.”

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