"You can see the latest dumbness as just the end of a long line of dumbnesses that have been taking place for thousands of years."

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Source : "J. B. Handelsman" by Nancy Franklin, www.newyorker.com. July 2, 2007.

J. B. Handelsman

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“What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.”

Source : "Jon Glaser: The Man Behind The Masks". Interview with Austin Nelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 17, 2012.
“When I think about that kind of spirit. I think about my mother, who is standing here with me tonight. My mother is the embodiment of what it means to have a Texas spirit because she wanted nothing more than for her children to have a better life than she had, to have an education beyond the ninth-grade education that she had, to live happier lives, more successful ones than she had been able to live. And you know what? She raised the daughter who ran for governor.”

Source : "Wendy Davis Concedes Race for Texas Governor With Heartfelt Speech" by Jill Filipovic, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 5, 2014.
“So what does that make you think about God? I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that's what the color is. Their souls.”
“The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.”
“I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.”
“They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.”
“When I post on Weibo, I try my best to post things that are aspirational and have a positive energy. I often think that maybe people who see my posts are still growing up and in a stage where they are choosing the kind of life they will have. If they see something good and that can influence them, this makes me think that Weibo can be a positive force for young people in China.”
“Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.”

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