"It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective."

-- Westbrook Pegler

#Cities Quotes #Usa Quotes #Community Quotes

“The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that...women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.”
“No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.”
“If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer.”
“The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.”

Source : Leslie Stephen (2012). “Studies of a Biographer”, p.265, Cambridge University Press
“The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.”
“Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.”
“God created man for fellowship... The fall of man ruined that and Paradise that is, the garden of Eden was lost, but on the new earth paradise will be regained and God will again fellowship with mankind in a unique sense.”
“To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.”

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