"In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?"

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Marisha Pessl

#America Quotes #People Quotes #House Quotes

“We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.”

Source : John Sherman (1879). “Selected Speeches and Reports on Finance and Taxation, from 1859 to 1878”
“Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.
“I would rather lose half of our clients than half of our clients' money.”
“To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. From the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of equal honor; all have their part to play.”
“People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from.”
“Life isn't about trying to be an expert in everything. It's about being an expert in one thing and offering it to the world.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bo Sanchez from Nov 22, 2016
“Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are the most secure, and that their ideas on religion, ethics and justice are the most enlightened. Like us, they think that final knowledge is at last within reach. Like us, they pity the people in earlier ages for not knowing the true facts. Unfailingly, human beings pity their ancestors for being so ignorant and forget that their descendants will pity them for the same reason.”

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