"California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land."

-- Ada Louise Huxtable

#Country Quotes #Land Quotes #California Quotes

“What the eye delights in, no longer dictates My greed to enjoy: boys, grass, the fenced-off deer. It leaves those figures that distantly play On the horizon's rim: they sign their peace, in games.”
“There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 574, 1895.
“The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept.”
“My name has opened doors and slammed doors shut.”
“When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.”
“The human race could go extinct and I for one would not shed any tears.”
“If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.”
“I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.”

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