"The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money."

-- Kenneth E. Boulding

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“I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.”

Source : "Actor Anne Bancroft dies at 73". www.abc.net.au. June 08, 2005.
“I'm sorry you're so unhappy as a person that you feel the need to say things that you would never understand [to a paparazzi]”
“There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place.”
“the most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy. ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart.”

Source : Lillie Devereux Blake (1883). “Woman's Place To-day: Four Lectures, in Reply to the Lenten Lectures on "Woman" by the Rev. Morgan Dix ...”
“Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.”
“The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.”

Source : "Charting the Candidates '72" by Ronald Van Doren, 1972.
“If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure with the pain Or dare to wish that we had never met?”

Source : Lady Gregory, Lucy McDiarmid, Maureen Waters (1995). “Selected writings”, Penguin USA
“I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the middle class like a spy so that I would have an advantageous position of attack, but I seem now and then to have forgotten my mission, and to have taken my disguises too seriously.”

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