"When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from."

-- Oliver Herford

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“The mightiest works have been accomplished by men who have somehow kept their ability to dream great dreams.”

Source : Walter Russell Bowie (1931). “On Being Alive”
“Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or acid than to break up the soul by methods of abstract thought . Nature-knowledge and man-knowledge have neither ways nor aims in common.”
“As good as Miami is, we'd rather go to Miami.”
“You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.”
“The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them.”
“On the Black Sea, my father saw it begin. And on the Black Sea, seventy years on, I saw the beginning of its end.”
“There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible”
“I hate politicians. I hate politics. But if I start to go into politics, I think I believe that I can serve more, I can help more people.”

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