"He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable genes who fled the crowded Old World for the new continent; it was the people who didn't get along well with others."

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Jonathan Franzen

#Data Quotes #Government Quotes #Self Quotes

“Sheâ€™d survived the Drowned Cities because she wasnâ€™t anything like Mouse. When the bullets started flying and warlords started making examples of peacekeeper collaborators, Mahlia had kept her head down, instead of standing up like Mouse. Sheâ€™d looked out for herself, first. And because of that, sheâ€™d survived.”
“The world is truly round and seems to start and end with those we love.”
“And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage”
“Homeopathy may be defined as a specious mode of doing nothing. While it waits on the natural progress of disease and the restorative tendence of nature on the one hand, or the injurious advance of disease on the other, it supplies the craving for activity, on the part of the patient and his friends, by the formal and regular administration of nominal medicine. Although homeopathy will, at some future time, be classed with historical delusions.”

Source : Jacob Bigelow (1867). “Modern Inquiries, Classical, Professional, and Miscellaneous”, p.231
“All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.”
“I’ve actually been in a lot of movies that involve sucking on fingers.”
“The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.”

Source : Ernest J. Gaines, John Lowe (1995). “Conversations with Ernest Gaines”, p.21, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Agriculture's not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they're no good as business people.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au

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