"When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store."

-- Lukas Foss

#War Quotes #Shoes Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.”
“Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.”
“In a lot of formats, you can be really experimental and see what would happen.”
“Do not follow after the past; do not go forward to meet the future. Instead, just rest the mind naturally in the present awareness.”
“I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.”

Source : "Goolsbee gets top W.H. econ job" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. September 10, 2010.
“Used to ride with him to Brooklyn, Lewis and Halsey, co chocolate thai, vernon style and burn it down”
“I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time for your thoughts to simmer and evolve and build up nuance, depth and empathy.”
“Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.”

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