"All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small."

-- Henry Louis Gates

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“Laughter heals all wounds, and that's one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you're going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.”
“There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.”
“Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill.”

Source : "The Secret to a Happier Retirement: Friends, Neighbors and a Fixed Annuity". online.wsj.com. July 27, 2005.
“Sometimes, she thought, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all.”

Source : Matthew Thomas (2014). “We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
“Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.”
“In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient.”
“I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don't have the time or the attention span for it.”
“The end of exile is the end of being.”

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