"The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred."

-- Jim Leach

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“I am going to die someday and I know where I am going.”
“You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 481), 1895.
“I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.”
“I think that dogs accept that they can live together and not understand one another, and I think that we somehow always try to have a complete and transparent understanding of one another, which just leads to more confusion.”
“We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians.”
“While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from far afield; humor, in contrast, strikes up fellow feeling, and though it does not leap so much across time and space, enriches our insight into the universal in familiar things, lending it a local habitation and a name.”
“...it is true that renewable energy is expensive and can't be done without public sector support, it is an important investment in the future.”
“A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.”

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