"She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and made of it a fine, even glittering, success; and this is a thing which is not easily forgiven."

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Source : Louis Bromfield (1957). “A Bromfield Galaxy”

Louis Bromfield

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“Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships”

Source : Cecily von Ziegesar (2008). “Gossip Girl 2: You Know You Love Me”, p.166, A&C Black
“Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.”
“Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.”

Source : "Does Religious Liberty Equal Freedom to Discriminate?" by Lawrence M. Krauss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.
“Theory without practice is of little value, whereas practice is the proof of theory.Theory is the knowledge, practice the ability.”
“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”
“Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.”

Source : Kenneth Lee Pike (1972). “Selected writings: To commemorate the 60th birthday of Kenneth Lee Pike”
“I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.”

Source : "Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.
“If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win.”

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