"You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore."

-- Peggy Noonan

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #America Quotes

“Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?”
“Medical experts now estimate that 80 percent of diseases are directly linked to frantic living.”
“Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage.”
“Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.”
“But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want to read.”
“Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans are descended from apes. Or that the earth is much older than four thousand years. Or that someone would ask where Noah go his polar bears from. Or that someone would swear. Father was terrified.”

Source : Guus Kuijer (2012). “The Book of Everything”, p.77, Scholastic Inc.
“That's the statement of the culture of England and Britain that someone would try to con a personal statement out of you to then be broadcast everywhere for everyone to debate.”
“The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.”

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