"Your birthday has come round again so we send this card to say, happy birthday nephew dear lots of love are sent your way."

“My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience.”

“Coco Chanel really wanted to have freedom of a man, and at first the only way she could find that freedom was through the clothes. They freed her movement; she got rid of the corset. This imposed her not as a decoration but as a real personality. She invented a new way of seductions through these clothes.”

“A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us... What I am saying is that if we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in our minds. We will begin to understand and to mistrust and to change our wasteful economy, which markets not just the produce of earth, but also the earth's ability to produce.”

“He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.”

“Are you living in a computer simulation?”

Source : Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic (2011). “Global Catastrophic Risks”, p.141, Oxford University Press

“You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days.”

Source : "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 27), 1975.

“Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.”

“What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.”

Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.218, Harvard University Press