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“I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life is in many respects, it seems a pity the old cheap, wholesome dishes have gone to make way for tinned and preserved foods.”
Source : "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. August Chapter, 1986.
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“Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own.”
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“We're short on wisdom; we're high on technology. Where's it going to lead?”
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“The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.”
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“Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached ...”
Source : Kim Chernin (1982). “The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness”, HarperCollins Publishers
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“I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.”
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“The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.”
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“My first job was in a Bohemian polka band, the Rejcek family polka band in Abbott. The old man in the band had another blacksmith shop in Abbott, but he liked me. All he had was horns and drums, and I was set up over there with my little guitar with no amps or nothing. I would play as loud as I wanted to, and nobody could hear me.”
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“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”
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“Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God’s plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins.”
