"I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga."

-- Mary Ann Shaffer

#Philosophical Quotes #Reading Quotes #Sides Quotes

“Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.”
“Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them”
“..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.”
“There are good one-day players, there are good Test players and vice versa”
“We can't keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised; we can't keep thinking of Muslim people as being ostracised because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. We can't judge a book by its cover.”
“I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia. It may someday be inevitable in this country [United States of America]. I am not seriously alarmed by the sufferings of the creditor class, the troubles which the church is bound to encounter, the restrictions on certain kinds of freedom which must result, nor even by the bloodshed of the transition period. A better economic order is worth a little bloodshed.”
“Relationships, the ones that last anyway, are really an extended game of Let's Make A Deal .”

Source : Claire Cook (2016). “Multiple Choice”, p.190, Marshbury Beach Books
“Did you know that a laugh is something that comes out of a hole in your face? Anywhere else and you're in dead trouble!”

Source : "Dodd's Bolton Bonus". www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. February 15, 2007.

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