"A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him."

--

George D. Prentice

“I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya. Massages are very cheap in Nairobi, so the cow would be comfortable.”
“Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States' Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a 'general assumption' but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.”
“Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.”
“Sometimes it's other people's voices you have to shut out.”
“Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.”
“The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.”

Source : Bret Anthony Johnston (2014). “Remember Me Like This: A Novel”, p.197, Random House
“It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.”
“If the Devil's in yer pants make cheese with him.”

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