"We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us."

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Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.71, Vanderbilt University Press

Rebecca Harding Davis

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“People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.”
“Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was song.”

Source : Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.82, Simon and Schuster
“I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests”
“I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.”
“My friends are coming up - they run this tattoo parlour out there and they're gonna ink me up with the tattoo I've been wanting since I was two, right here, upper arm.”

Source : Interview With Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. December 27, 2010.
“Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a far more serious issue. Excessive pumping for irrigation to satisfy food needs today almost guarantees a decline in food production tomorrow.”
“... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.”
“If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.”

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