"Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited."

-- Jane Addams

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“You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.”

Source : "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.
“Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.”

Source : Ivan Goncharov (2015). “Oblomov”, p.102, Sheba Blake Publishing
“In Cannes, I try to find somebody's apartment that I can cook at. I always go shopping in the marche and try to make a meal and set up a whole space outside the business. I'll try to go to at least two or three movies that I know there's no way in hell I'll be involved with from a business perspective. You have to indulge your cinephilic needs.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.”
“When September 6, 1994, arrives, no one else can become saved. The end has come.”

Source : Harold Camping (1992). “1994?”, Vantage Pr
“I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.”
“I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But what's happening to schools like that sort of all over the country is in economic pressure they're becoming more and more preparatory because that's what people will really pay the money for private schooling for now.”
“Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never would have been able to do that in the cotton country of Arkansas.”

Source : "Journalist Isabel Wilkerson". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2010.

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