"To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin."

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Source : "Authors speak out on the Kennedy mystique". www.cnn.com. July 19, 1999.

Michael Beschloss

#Father Quotes #Boys Quotes #History Quotes

“Keep feeding your faith until your doubts starves to death.”
“The urban, on the other hand, is often seen as more real and mundane, even though it is obviously far more recent in terms of planetary development. I think this might be because nature corresponds to the unconscious and the artificial world of the city and human culture to the conscious mind.”
“Enthusiasm moves the world.”

Source : Letter to Mrs Drew, 19 May 1891, in Some Hawarden Letters (1917) ch. 7
“Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.”

Source : Harvey Cox (2013). “The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective”, p.261, Princeton University Press
“If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order to achieve it? Why not study law? A judge has to do everything that a scientist is exhorted to do in the way of withholding judgment until all the facts are in, and then judging impartially on the merits of the case as well as he can. ... Why not a course in Sherlock Holmes? The detectives, or at least the detective-story writers, join with the scientists in excoriating "dogmatic prejudice, lying, falsification of facts, and data, and willful fallacious reasoning."”
“Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.”

Source : Simon Van Booy (2009). “Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories”, HarperCollins
“But having said that, regardless to what reviews come out whatever, I like love the movie. I think it's great, and so people can think what they think about it, but I'm very happy with what we did. I'm really proud of whatever all the actors what we all kind of accomplished and so regardless of how well it does or whatever I'm very excited about it and I think we set out to do the thing and accomplished what we wanted to do. Our goal was met, so yeah.”
“I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.”

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