"The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961."

-- Ben Stein

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“The greatest luxury is being free.”
“The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.”
“After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian,”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like one of those flower-stands full of ferns and plants - the sort you come across in drawing rooms at home, with wire-work legs. I do not mean that Mondoleh has wire-work legs under water, but it looks as if it might have.”
“The movie doesn't do what you want it do. It just grows and then you have a movie at the end of it, hopefully.”
“I mean, the idea that Bar could have sent him off on a Grand Tour. But he wasn't the least bit interested. Why? Why isn't he interested in the world? Because here's the bad news for him: He's in the world now.”
“When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.”

Source : Pamela Ribon (2003). “Why Girls Are Weird: A Novel”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
“As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.”

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