"Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person you just met.... In Switzerland it is, Where are you from? That is all you need to know about someone."

-- Eric Weiner

#Country Quotes #Party Quotes #Simple Quotes

“In the years since then, those four freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear - have stood as a summary of our aspirations for the American Republic and for the world.”
“People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?”
“Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you.”
“Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen.”
“My wife... its difficult to say what she does... she sells seashells on the seashore.”
“Somebody thinking that they can make noise intimidate me is comical.”
“I don't really know why, but danger has always been an important thing in my life - to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could go without cracking up.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We are a very open, very democratic site, which means we get all sorts of people. We do get some bad guys who are a few fries short of a Happy Meal. So we have to enlist the aid of our community to help us. The lesson implicit in this is that people will help you out and behave in a really good way. If you trust them, they will respond to that trust.”

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