"Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern buttons and Howdy Doody puppets and their Aunt Thelma's toaster as antiques."

-- Calvin Trillin

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“Success and all good things in life, start with a genuine concern for others.”
“Georg always looks beautiful! He wakes up like beauty himself”
“When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it is, as far as I am concerned, the most rank form of arrogance . . . The faith-healer Bosworth once said that faith makes God act. If you follow that line of reasoning God is in His heaven, but Bosworth rules the world!”
“I'd let my golden chances pass me by.”
“My greatest wish â€” other than salvation â€” was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.”
“Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.”
“To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.”
“I believe that the basic attribute of mankind is to look after each other”

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