"I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know."

-- Pauline Kael

#Funeral Quotes

“And I take this opportunity to declare, that ...I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is. It appears to me...the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty, and the fundamental principles of the constitution, that ever was found in an English law-book.”

Source : "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.
“A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.”
“Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority.”
“That was the peak. I just knew it was modern, not traditional culture. I could be cool”
“A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.”
“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.”
“Life was short, no matter how many days you were granted. And people were precious, each and every one, no matter how many you were lucky enough to have in your life. And love... love was worth dying for. Worth living for, too. -Tohrment”
“Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a foolâ€™s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.”

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