"Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be."

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Source : Jonas Jonasson (2012). “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared”, p.28, Hachette UK

Jonas Jonasson

“The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of souls in that country. It is the root of their religion, and to show them what the root is, I feel sure, is the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last 3000 years.”

Source : "The Life and Letters of Right Honorable Friedrich Max Müller" edited by Georgina Müller, 1902.
“Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.”
“And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.”
“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
“Certainly there are dozens of over-50 actresses who look great: Sophia Loren, Susan Sarandon, Ursula Andress, Stefanie Powers, Raquel Welch, Barbara Eden, Joanna Lumley, Linda Gray - the list is endless, and these are just the actresses! I have many friends in their 60s, 70s and 80s, not in the limelight, but who all look absolutely stunning.”
“Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.”

Source : Osbert Lancaster (1963). “All done from memory”, John Murray
“If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?”
“I've gotten balanced coverage and broad coverage - all we could have asked. ... For heaven sakes, we kid about the liberal media, but every republican on earth does that.”

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