"Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State."

-- William Graham Sumner

#Land Quotes #Gains Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.”
“When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction.”

Source : "Loftus on False and Implanted Memories". Interview with Alison George, www.patheos.com. September 13, 2013.
“If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.”
“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”
“Boxers don't have sex before a fight. Do you know why that is? They don't fancy each other...”
“A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.”
“Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 707), 1922.
“Life (as you call it) is an opportunity for you to know experientially what you already know conceptually. You need learn nothing to do this. You need merely remember what you already know, and act on it.”

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