"If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false."

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Source : "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

M. H. Abrams

#Views Quotes #Predictions Quotes

“Women become breadwinners, men become caregivers. That's the birth of intimate marriage.”
“The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.”
“Iâ€™ve aged, but I donâ€™t think Iâ€™ve grown up.”
“I want people to suffer less, and I think it's possible.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“It would be wonderful if I can inspire others, who are struggling to realize their dreams, to say 'if this country kid could do it, let me keep slogging away'.”
“In 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing.”
“Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.”
“When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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