"We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world."

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Source : "Mark Twain, Then and Now, and the Invention of ‘Hispanic’". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. March 19, 2004.

Hal Holbrook

“I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.”
“You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement. Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority. All people are born with different constitutions. Never compare with others. Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength. Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.”
“When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world.”
“Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.”

Source : Jack Vance (2002). “Lyonesse”, p.61, ElectricStory
“A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.”

Source : "I’ve Discovered Facebook" by Dan Rather, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2012.
“American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the rules of the game, without which the game could not continue. I doubt anyone, no matter how sharp and sharp-tongued, could succeed in getting across to high school students how vital an acute mind is for just keeping a grip on one's life and earnings in our mendacious politics and economics. No wonder our school system is devoutly dedicated to demoralizing and blunting such minds.”
“A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.”

Source : John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.12
“People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.”

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