"Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality."

-- James Salter

#Intense Quotes #Inequality Quotes

“I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.”
“The midwife of history is violence.”
“By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in personal savings accounts, the plan ensures that Social Security taxes will be used for Social Security.”
“History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a story without an argument fades into antiquarianism; an argument without a story risks pedantry. Writing history requires empathy, inquiry, and debate. It requires forswearing condescension, cant, and nostalgia. The past isnâ€™t quaint. Much of it, in fact, is bleak.”

Source : Jill Lepore (2012). “The Story of America: Essays on Origins”, p.15, Princeton University Press
“She thanked God that life was not always winter, that spring always came at last to chase away the cold and heaviness, and to release one to warmth and movement again.”

Source : Janette Oke (2016). “The Love Comes Softly Collection: Eight Novels in One”, p.417, Baker Books
“You worry too much. Eat some bacon...what? No, I got no idea if it'll make you feel better, I just made too much bacon.”
“I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that close to nuclear war at the end. Rational individuals: Kennedy was rational; Khrushchev was rational; Castro was rational. Rational individuals came that close to total destruction of their societies. And that danger exists today.”

Source : "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Documentary, August 30, 2003.
“I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too.... I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.”

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