"After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished."

-- Graydon Carter

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“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
“Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.”
“Fashion and all that comes after the music.”
“He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him. They could give a number of reasons for why they had to torment him; he was too fat, too ugly, too disgusting. But the real problem was simply that he existed, and every reminder of his existence was a crime.”

Source : John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Let Me In”, p.10, Macmillan
“Make a career of humanity... It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man... You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.”
“A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth, But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth. The angels grow quite wistful over worldly things below; They hear the hurdy-gurdies in the Candle Makers Row. They listen for the laughter from the antics of the earth; They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth.”

Source : Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”
“It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.”
“I just believe in the #â€Ž goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.”

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