"It is a gift, and you realize as soon as you cross the border into Paraguay, as I did, the first time in '82, that you are in a sort of wonderland. Nothing is quite right: the buildings, they've got their own architecture, their own language; and everything is just a little bit off key."

-- John Gimlette

#Keys Quotes #Borders Quotes #Wonderland Quotes

“Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.”
“I know this doesn't last forever, so I'm cherishing every minute of it.”
“If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!”
“The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.”
“The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.”

Source : "The Last Mission" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2009.
“The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.”

Source : "The Triple Aim: Care, Health, And Cost" by Donald Berwick, Thomas W. Nolan and John Whittington in "Health Affairs", Volume 27, No. 3 (pp. 759-769), May/June 2008.
“What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don't have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we're all really still sorting out.”
“Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble.”

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