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People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.


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GILBERT MURRAY When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the...
GILBERT ARLAND The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way benea...
GILBERT ADAIR Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideolo...
GILBERT ADAIR If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my vo...
GILBERT HARDING We need cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however v...
GILBERT ADAIR I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day...
ELIZABETH GILBERT My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complic...
MELISSA GILBERT I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially intera...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, ri...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept in...
ELIZABETH GILBERT It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Pe...
ELIZABETH GILBERT It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field c...
WALTER GILBERT A good teacher is a determined person.
GILBERT HIGHET Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. L...
ELIZABETH GILBERT We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.
GILBERT BAKER If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a l...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful...
GILBERT BAKER I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black gu...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
GILBERT PARKER A rainbow is something in the sky, so a rainbow flag fits.
GILBERT BAKER And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me fe...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the...
DANIEL GILBERT Tomorrow is no man's gift.
GILBERT PARKER There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us,...
GILBERT PARKER I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn't funny enough. I would exami...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument a...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But ...
GILBERT MURRAY Some of the Park City kids said it was the best pipe of the Intermountain series.
ANDREW GILBERT He had the run of his life. Smooth and big, with landings that were on the money.
ANDREW GILBERT