"And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go."

-- E. L. Doctorow

#Years Quotes #Shooting Quotes #Four Quotes

“You must sacrifice every thought, very ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood.”
“I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.”
“Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.”
“I'm a big kid. I never lost my childlike appreciation of things. Too many people lock it out and throw their toys away and say, okay, I'm gonna grow up and be grumpy and miserable and not think about the magical side of things anymore -- and I can't seem to stop doing that.”
“It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as a useful piece of scientific scaffolding, will be replaced by the deduction of the phenomena known as attraction and repulsion, from the general laws of motion.”
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
“There simply aren't any grand moments in life, and we surely don't live in those moments. No, we live in the utterly mundane. We exist in the bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms, and hallways of life. This is where the character of our life is set. This is where we live the life of faith.”
“We shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, 'Darwin is god and I, so-and-so, am his prophet.”

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