"We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them."

-- Lillian Hellman

#Mistake Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Past Quotes

“Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed.”
“Great is bookishness and the charm of books.”

Source : "In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays". Book by Augustine Birrell, 1905.
“Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.”
“Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what they do; that's their living, that's their pride, that's their joy. They don't achieve that because they happen to be human.”

Source : Press conference, www.boston.com. June 12, 2008.
“Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.”
“Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.”
“When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.”
“I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.”

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