"I realized early on in writing the book that it needed to be from a family point of view, and that nobody outside the family would weigh in. And then well into writing it, the question became how to balance the perspectives; how to switch between chapters."

-- Mary Kay Zuravleff

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“He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.”
“The rich people are doing well but regular people suffer. We'll all be better off when we realize that we're part of one big family.”
“The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.”

Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 31, 1989.
“Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without egocentric bias or thalmic disturbance, with correct memory, with clear distinction between fact, assumption, and non-fact.”
“If any QB can complete passes to himself, it's Johnny Manziel.”
“The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the notion as essentially impracticable, in spite of the author's insistent appeal to put aside prejudice and to recollect the supposed impossibility of heavier-than-air flight before it was actually accomplished. An analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case.”
“When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.”

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“We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition.”

Source : "How Wars End: Eye-witness Accounts of the Fall of Berlin" by Vladimir Sevruk, (p. 27), 1974.

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