"Getting old in America ... best to do it somewhere else."

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Source : Nicole Hollander (2007). “Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial”

Nicole Hollander

#America Quotes #Age Quotes #Old Age Quotes

“With chemicals, it's shoot first and ask questions later.”
“The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically executed represents the most humane act of mankind.”
“All the lawyers and the business stuff is work, but actually creating stuff isn't work. It's good effort. It's hard work. But, it's not work. It doesn't feel like work because the result is very rewarding.”
“Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.”

Source : Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1923). “The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation”
“The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo”
“... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.”

Source : Robert Bly (2015). “Iron John: A Book about Men”, p.30, Da Capo Press
“I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.”
“Stop talking about the problem and start thinking about the solution.”

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