"We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago."

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Ken Jennings

#Cities Quotes #Realizing Quotes #Century Quotes

“It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.”
“At least if I keep my love a secret, he and I can still have this wonderful, odd, exciting relationship where I love him in silence and pretend he's loving me in silence too.”
“About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.”
“What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?”
“Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good".”
“Israel is a very young country, a cultural melting pot, and unlike the structured life of the Orthodox Jews, I grew up in a non-religious part of society where people were totally open to new experiences on many levels. I learned that when things are missing, you invent them.”
“Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims.”
“Places that are empty of you are empty of life.”

Source : Paul Spencer-Longhurst, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (2000). “The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s”, Scala Books

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