"Those they praise, but they read the others."

-- Martial

“The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services.”
“As a philosopher, you define constraints for any good theory explaining what you are interested in, then you go out and search for help in other disciplines.”

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“No labor is hopeless.”
“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”
“In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.”
“Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.”
“I want to feel the surging Of my sad people's soul Hidden by a minstrel-smile.”
“If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.”

Source : John Updike (2010). “Rabbit, Run”, p.157, Random House

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