"Longevity conquers scandal every time."

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Source : Shelby Foote (1992). “Jordan County: A Landscape in Narrative”, Vintage

Shelby Foote

#Time Quotes #Scandal Quotes #Conquer Quotes

“It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.”
“Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.”
“One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring clean... It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came from under his workbench as he swept. Beginnings of creatures, bits that looked useful but had seemed wrong, ideas he'd mislaid and forgotten... There was even a tiny lump of sun. He scratched his head. What could be done with all this rubbish?”
“If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.”
“Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.”

Source : FaceBook post by Naomi Klein from Feb 23, 2011
“Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.”

Source : FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 29, 2015
“I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!”
“Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.”

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