"The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries."

-- Gary Becker

#Past Quotes #Other Cultures Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned”
“I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.”
“Why isnâ€™t it fun to watch a videotape of last nightâ€™s football game even when we donâ€™t know who won? Because the fact that the game has already been played precludes the possibility that our cheering will somehow penetrate the television, travel through the cable system, find its way to the stadium, and influence the trajectory of the ball as it hurtles toward the goalposts!”
“The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.”
“What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful.”

Source : "Tony Hale Talks Being a Body Man in ‘Veep’ and the Return of Buster Bluth" by Sam Adams, www.indiewire.com. April 26, 2012.
“I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.”
“The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice”
“Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.”

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