"Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something."

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Source : "Helen Levitt, Who Froze New York Street Life on Film, Is Dead at 95" by Margarett Loke, www.nytimes.com. March 30, 2009.

Helen Levitt

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“My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.”

Source : "Mission With LeMay: My Story" by Curtis E. LeMay, MacKinlay Kantor, (p. 565), 1965.
“In fact, somebody keeps putting on my Wikipedia page that I'm either Don Pardo's son or grandson. I had an audition recently where the woman said, "I understand that you're Don Pardo's grandson," and I said, "No, I am not." And you should have seen the look of disappointment on her face. It may have cost me the job. It was that devastating to her that I wasn't related to Don Pardo.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I needed to go . . . the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth.”

Source : Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Nothing should be considered outside the scope of God's authority.”
“How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may now expect to see, not only in theory and in books but in actual practice, calculated for the general good, and taking no more upon it than the general good requires, leaving all men the enjoyment of as many of their natural rights as possible, and no more interfering with matters of religion, with men's notions concerning God, and a future state, than with philosophy, or medicine.”

Source : Joseph Priestley (1791). “Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France, &c”, p.145, Birmingham
“[Billie Holiday] was keeping it super real, and you can feel that to this day. Everything that she sang, she believed in. So I had to pick songs that I felt the same about.”

Source : Source: revive-music.com
“Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not merely here. And there aren't enough bathrooms and white enamel in the world to go round.”
“I think it is astounding that people could argue for "you just must trust someone else to fix it" instead of "you could fix it yourself, or hire someone to fix it." There is a contractor base out there that can solve these problems as well as or better than the major vendors could. But I think the major vendors are still having more luck at getting the ear of the press.”

Source : "Interview: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software". The Epoch Times, July 05, 2005.

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