"The last few years have been my happiest. Im happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I dont feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit."

-- William Proxmire

#Blue Quotes #Years Quotes #People Quotes

“Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.”
“Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more”
“I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.”
“The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.”
“Every man who loves his country, or wishes well to the best interests of society, will show himself a decided friend not only of morality and the laws, but of religious institutions, and honorably bear his part in supporting them.”
“Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.”
“A Nation of Outsiders is smart, insightful, and politically astute. Grace Hale's analysis of the 'romance of the outsider' is necessary reading for anyone who has ever wondered about the meaning of our national obsession with 'authenticity'-as well as for anyone who might be curious about what Jerry Falwell and Holden Caulfield have in common.”
“Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.”

Source : Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

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