"Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women, moving women into the workplace; our feelings about our role in the world. All of that comes in a very direct way out of World War II."

-- Rick Atkinson

#War Quotes #Moving Quotes #Race Quotes

“(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.”
“I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in.”
“After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!”
“Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.”
“When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that he, too, was human and therefore less than perfect. His chief failing was, perhaps, that of all the great artists, he was the most lacking in exuberance. That is why he began to be scorned in a world which rated exuberance higher than beauty or love or pity.”
“You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.”
“Fitness begins with initiative and continues with consistency. The six pack abs is a byproduct of being healthy.”
“Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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