"The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them."

-- Meg Rosoff

#Average Quotes #Long Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?”
“It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.”
“A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal”
“The real transgression occurs when religion wants government to tell citizens how to live uniquely personal parts of their lives. The failure of Prohibition proves the futility of such an attempt when a majority or even a substantial minority happens to disagree. Some questions may be inherently individual ones, or people may be sharply divided about whether they are. In such cases, like Prohibition and abortion, the proper role of religion is to appeal to the conscience of the individual, not the coercive power of the state.”
“I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.”
“It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.”

Source : Shirley Hazzard (1991). “Countenance of truth: the United Nations and the Waldheim case”, Vintage
“A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.”
“It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.”

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