"New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example."

-- Colson Whitehead

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“The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.”

Source : "The Progress of Fifty Years". Speech at the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.
“I never could understand the popular belief that because a man makes a lot of money he has a lot of brains. Some very rich men who made their fortunes have been among the stupidest men I have ever met.”
“Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states.”
“I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks!”

Source : "Lilly Pulitzer, designer of trademark tropical dresses, dies aged 81", www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2013.
“This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.”

Source : David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.32, Penguin
“Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.”
“However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.”

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