"Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time."

-- Grace Paley

“It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but that over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths.”

Source : Thomas Cole (1980). “The collected essays and prose sketches”
“To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.”
“Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.”
“There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.”
“Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.”
“Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.”
“I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve....”
“Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.”

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