"The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have."

-- Deborah Needleman

#Decorating Quotes #Backgrounds Quotes

“I know I have plenty of enemies, but I'd rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.”
“In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.”
“For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!”

Source : "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" l. 15 (1855)
“When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.”
“The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.”
“Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.”
“Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.”
“Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy. In such a system production is constantly expanded as long as further production is profitable, and men constantly innovate new ways of producing things that will expand the profit margin.”

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