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Philip Roth quote: "History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for. Julia Child
We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself! Paul Prudhomme
It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative. Jesse Helms
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values. A. R. Ammons
There's something satisfying, I think about light traveling for millions of years through space and JUST at the right moment as it reaches Earth someone looks at the right bit of sky and sees it. It just seems right that an event of that magnitude should be witnessed.- Robert Evans on supernovas Bill Bryson
This is how I define grace: you're on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything goes so smoothly. That's where I get my confidence and success, from knowing that I have an edge because I know I'm prepared. Alex Rodriguez
Tom Robbins quote: "There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that..."
There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others. Tom Robbins
Ira Gershwin quote: "Love is sweeping the country."
Love is sweeping the country. Ira Gershwin
Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people. Tim Ryan
Heraclitus quote: "The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of..."
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. Heraclitus
They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it. Bruce Jackson
Miuccia Prada quote: "I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes."
I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes. Miuccia Prada
Brian Bosworth quote: "I'm moving to a point that I'm fed up with the N.C.A.A...."
I'm moving to a point that I'm fed up with the N.C.A.A. dictation. Brian Bosworth
Epicurus quote: "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death..."
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. Epicurus
A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us. Marcel Proust