"A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet."

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Source : Hendrik Hertzberg (2005). “Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004”, p.49, Penguin

Hendrik Hertzberg

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“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”

Source : Studs Terkel (1975). “Working”, HarperCollins
“A culture is made â€” or destroyed â€” by its articulate voices.”
“If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.”
“To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.”
“Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.”

Source : Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper Yellowstone and the like afford the greatest natural shows, I am not so sure but the prairies and plains, while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the esthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest, and make North America's characteristic landscape.”
“A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable”
“The finest glasses for both technical and hedonistic purposes are those made by Riedel. The effect of these glasses on fine wine is profound. I cannot emphasize enough what a difference they make.”

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