"[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home."

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Source : Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The burning point”

Mary Jo Putney

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“I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.”
“There is no conflict between a better meal and a better world.”

Source : "René Redzepi: 'What we eat matters. There's no conflict between a better meal and a better world'" by Rene Redzepi, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2011.
“Do you know that all of the money that we are spending, that the government is spending, must come from you? The government has no great pile of gold to which it can go to get what it gives you. The government has not one cent that it does not take from your pockets. Do not imagine, do not believe, do not go on the theory that you are not to pay this bill, unless the fundamentals of our government are to be overturned.”
“That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.”
“I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.”
“Lovely flowers have been known to grow out of trash heaps.”

Source : Elizabeth Kata (1965). “A Patch Of Blue”
“All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.”

Source : Paul Klee (1967). “Paul Klee, 1879-1940: A Retrospective Exhibition”
“We know through the process of energy independence, our whole geopolitical footprint changes in terms of our national security and how we operate the American military. In addition to that we've got all these forward liabilities on these entitlement programs that, with the right tax and the energy policy, we can pay down and offset some of those liabilities.”

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