"Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful."

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Source : "The Great Refrainer: The Legacy of Calvin Coolidge". www.cfr.org. May 15, 2013.

Amity Shlaes

#War Quotes #Hands Quotes #Forever Quotes

“It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling.”
“Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”
“Risk more than others think safe.”

Source : Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”
“These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of those users, but I can't help but think that those who claimed to speak for the blind were being more than a little disingenuous, just like those Hemp people who present their arguments in terms of their deep and abiding care for the textile industry, when their real motives are ... something else entirely.”

Source : "The Markup Wars". www.jwz.org. 2003.
“If we accept imperfect food, we can indeed change the world for the better.”

Source : "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.
“Each new lawsuit seeks to expand the size of the 'religion-free zone' in the public square.”
“It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.”

Source : Adam Haslett (2002). “You are Not a Stranger Here”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group
“I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.”

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