"The human race has improved everything, but the human race."

-- Adlai E. Stevenson

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“The life in which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks.”

Source : Katharine Tynan (1919). “The Years of the Shadow”
“I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the scenes. They have nightclubs at the Olympic Village. It's like college all over again.”
“For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems.”
“I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.”
“She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.”
“The word â€œphotographyâ€ can be interpreted as â€œwriting with lightâ€ or â€œdrawing with light.â€ Some photographers are producing beautiful photographs by drawing with light.. Some other photographers are trying to tell something with their photographs. They are writing with light...”
“Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public policies designed to help these women combine their roles as mothers and as workers.”
“A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.”

Source : Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.154, Transaction Publishers

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