"And it’d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington."

-- Stephen Briggs

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“When a man or a woman holds fast to youth, even if successfully, there is something of the pitiful and the tragic involved. It is the everlasting struggle of the soul to retain the joy of earth, whose fleeing distinguishes it from heaven, and whose retention is not accomplished without an inner knowledge of its futility.”
“In terms of history and sports, I don't think people will forget.”
“I am not pregnant, but I've had three kids, and there is a 'bump.' From now on, ladies, I will have a 'bump' and it will be my 'baby bump,' and let's just all settle in and get used to it. It's not going anywhere.”

Source : "Jennifer Garner Gets Real About Her ‘Baby Bump’ That Isn’t Actually A Baby" By Jessica Samakow, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2014.
“It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.”
“I think the experience of getting an audience a little bit tense and shocking them with a jump scare, and then moving on it can be cheap and easy. The harder thing is to get them unnerved and disturbed in a growing way. That starts off easy and increases all the way through the picture.”
“There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.”
“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.”
“This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.”

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