"He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act."

-- Johann Ludwig Tieck

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“If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.”
“There's no room for anything else. You forget that you're tired or cold or hungry. You forget that banged-up knee and your aching tooth. You forget the past, and you forget that there's such a thing as a future.”
“Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it.”
“One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the experience of those whose lives it wishes to improve.”

Source : Irving Howe (1994). “A Critic's Notebook”, Harcourt
“Gossip, then, is content, a message about people; rumor is a process. It takes a bit of gossip and reshapes it, modifies it in some way, and passes it along from individual to individual in different ways.”

Source : Jack Levin, Arnold Arluke (2013). “Gossip: The Inside Scoop”, p.42, Springer
“Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.”
“My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.”
“The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the Mandolin.”

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