"My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never ..."

-- Patrick Modiano

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“Let's acknowledge that America's increasing decadence is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. When we tolerate trash on television, permit ***** to invade our homes via the Internet, and allow babies to be killed at the point of birth, we are inflaming radical Islam.”
“My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.”
“A consultant to be worth his salt must give honest judgments not necessarily those which he thinks the clients would like to hear.”
“You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!”

Source : "Aly Raisman's Tips For Going After What You Want" by Macey Hall, www.seventeen.com. May 23, 2013.
“A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.”

Source : "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.
“I find it very difficult to relate to India's new middle class. This very patriotic and neoliberal group that mixes religion and economics together. I find them very irksome. Very difficult to like. They are privileged, but they don't want to talk about their privilege. It's difficult to find poetry amongst these people. Some sort of hidden spirit of beauty.”
“Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or the community--are more likely to be overburdened by the demands of their babies and to be unable to respond to them adequately. Parents who experience severe poverty or economic insecurity, who cannot satisfy their own basic needs, are likely to have difficulty in responding to their children's needs.”
“In different countries the basis of resistance takes different forms, but it comes chiefly from the conservative groups. Hence it becomes increasingly difficult to go on spending in the presence of persisting deficits and rising debt. Some form of spending must be found that will command the support of the conservative groups. Political leaders, embarrassed by their subsidies to the poor, soon learned that one of the easiest ways to spend money is on military establishments and armaments, because it commands the support of the groups most opposed to spending.”

Source : John T. Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”

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