"Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute."

-- Marcel Proust

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“I'm a season ticket holder to the Washington Wizards, and I love going to Washington Nationals and Redskins games.”
“I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.”
“The communication has evolved to such a degree that kids under 25 can connect to each other so quickly and so immediately that they really don't have the patience or understanding for inherited rhetoric.”

Source : "Interview: Seth Green talks ‘Dads’ controversy". Interview with Liane Bonin Starr, uproxx.com. September 17, 2013.
“Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.”
“It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative attitudes toward females, but men who have abusive fathers do; the disrespect that abusive men show their female partners and their daughters is often absorbed by their sons. So while a small number of abusive men do hate women, the great majority exhibit a more subtle-though often quite pervasive-sense of superiority or contempt toward females, and some don't show any obvious signs of problems with women at all until they are in a serious relationship.”
“Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?”
“The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.”
“Food is so important - it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.”

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