"You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too."

Source : James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.115, Penguin

James Agee

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“One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.”
“Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
“My favorite sports movies, I like 'Remember the Titans' and 'Hoosiers' Jimmy Chitwood, from the corner.”
“You became a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the world of books even before you could read, let you taste the magic of stories, took you to the library, and allowed you to stay up later at night to read in bed.”
“Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to believe the Iraq War will end up changing the United States more than it will ever change Iraq.”

Source : Robert Baer (2008). “The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower”, p.27, Broadway Books
“I never play all new stuff, because you got to "dance with the girl that brought you" what is that saying? You got to play the songs that got you there, so I love playing the songs from my very first record.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable”

Source : "A Theory of Roughness". The Edge Interview, www.edge.org. December 20, 2004.
“But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.”

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