"America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances."

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Source : Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

Israel Shenker

#Morning Quotes #Past Quotes #America Quotes

“Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.”
“A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.”
“Choosing colours should not be a gamble. It should be a conscious decision. Colours have a meaning and a function.”
“I'm not afraid to talk about God and it's something I have a faith in. But I feel his presence more in those really profound, quiet moments of solitude. I can't seem to get those as much around here in Nashville, so I go to seek them out. Iceland is probably the closest I ever felt to it. That place did a lot for my soul.”

Source : "Kip Moore Reveals Red Carpet Anxieties, Why He's Soured on the Fruits of Success and If He'll Ever Settle Down". Interview with Eileen Finan, people.com. September 11, 2017.
“Sometimes, I have to really monitor myself, but the only monitoring job I really do on myself on stage is, Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Ideally, I send it in a flow of truth.”

Source : "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is forever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! Let me taste the newest and the freshest.”
“The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.”
“LeSean McCoy has become the most exciting player in the National Football League. I believe heâ€™s the MVP this year.”

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