"Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct."

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James Harvey Robinson

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“Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.”
“[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century.”

Source : "What's the Matter with Kansas?". Book by Thomas Frank, 2004.
“I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.”
“Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?”
“There are times in life to grow, and there are times in life to shine. One can't grow and shine at the same time; it just doesn't work that way. Now you're growing. Tomorrow you'll shine.”

Source : Carol Plum-Ucci (2002). “What Happened to Lani Garver”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“What do you think will be the biggest problem in computing in the 90's? There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms.”
“Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”
“There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.”

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