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“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.”
Source : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.82, New York Review of Books
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“Nothing's faster than the Internet.”
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“In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.”
Source : "Pelosi's Armenian gambit". jewishworldreview.com. October 19, 2007. 
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“I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.”
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“In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.”
Source : Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone
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“The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.”
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“A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box, and the voting booth. And those decisions ultimately affect the entire nation...the literate and illiterate.”
Source : Jim Trelease (2006). “The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition”, p.23, Penguin
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“Oh! weep not that our beauty wears Beneath the wings of Time; That age o'erclouds the brow with cares That once was raised sublime... But mourn the inward wreck we feel As hoary years depart, And Time's effacing fingers steal Young feelings from the heart!”
