"America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy Manhattan Gershwin nights... the America we yearned for has gone. Did it ever exist?"

-- Michael Bywater

#Beer Quotes #Night Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Caring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation. Unfortunately, the Bush administration and congressional Republicans have not lived up to this duty.”
“No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.”
“I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.”
“But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing.”
“I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.”
“Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.”
“He will find out the hard way on his birthday that he has got a present he never wanted”
“Every morning is new as the last one, uncreased as the not quite imaginable first.”

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