"The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages."

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Source : The American Conflict ch. 1 (1864 - 1866)

Horace Greeley

#Age Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“You'd rather own gold; not the miner”
“Art does not imitate, but interpret.”

Source : Giuseppe Mazzini (1945). “Selected Writings”
“But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract ideas or more sure that disagreement with him is proof of ignorance, bad faith or dogmatism. As a candidate, he insisted his real opponent was 'cynicism,' and in his address last week, he returned to this trite formulation, insisting again he was bravely battling the cynics.”
“In my home, who is my boss? If you ask my wife she'll say certainly not her. She claims that she can't make me do anything and so she's not my boss. I am. I'm pretty sure, maybe.”
“Some people say they want things, but when push comes to shove they don't do what is necessary to achieve it.”
“That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.”
“You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.”
“Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.”

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