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For thirty-five years, David Halberstam, an unsilent member of the Silent Generation, has contemplated America and its place in the world, casting his eye on big subjects - Vietnam, global economics, race, mass media, and the 1950s.


John Gregory Dunne

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As we wave our goodbyes,
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ALLAN MELTZER There's more consensus . . . within the economics profession about how the world works than there wa...
ALLAN H. MELTZER 'Exculpatory' is in the eye of the beholder.
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"That expression has never made sense to m...
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HEMANT MEHTA Life is a journey of faces. Each face sees a new group of people changing the face of life and livin...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
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WHOOPI GOLDBERG Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
OLIVER PLATT Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmt...
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RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice.
"Not where I should have b...
RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
RENEE AHDIEH Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night...
THE WONDER YEARS I remember a place... a town... a house like a lot of houses... a yard like a lot of other yards... ...
THE WONDER YEARS I never knew it would be this hard to lose something I never had.
THE WONDER YEARS Once upon a time there was a girl I knew, who lived across the street. Brown hair, brown eyes. When ...
THE WONDER YEARS Change is never easy. You fight to hold on. You fight to let go.
THE WONDER YEARS I guess sometimes the ground can shift between your feet. Sometimes your footing slips. You stumble....
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WILLIAM GRAY The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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L.J. SMITH And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,...
MONTY PYTHON I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I d...
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HENRY KISSINGER America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War.
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MUHAMMAD ALI Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
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FRANCINE RIVERS In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha...
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ALBERT CAMUS A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
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KILROY J. OLDSTER Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others.
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GREGORY NUNN When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
PHILIPPA GREGORY Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit...
PHILIPPA GREGORY A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to sup...
PHILIPPA GREGORY I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been...
PHILIPPA GREGORY Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the...
GREGORY MAGUIRE They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I...
GREGORY CORSO If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who sho...
GREGORY NUNN A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.
GREGORY NUNN Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.
GREGORY NUNN Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,
GREGORY NUNN Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bil...
DICK GREGORY The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It sa...
GREGORY NUNN And we love to dance -- especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you...
DICK GREGORY Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
DICK GREGORY Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very mi...
LADY GREGORY Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the ...
GREGORY CLARK I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
DICK GREGORY But no matter which path we take, Nessa, there will always be trying times. Faith is believing that ...
KRISTIANA GREGORY [Nessa] didn’t know how to disagree with a preacher, or if she was even allowed to, so she merely ...
KRISTIANA GREGORY Princess," he said, spreading his arms in a shrug, "how does such a little thing like you get such a...
KRISTIANA GREGORY People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim...
GREGORY MAGUIRE When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty
GREGORY I You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest a...
PHILIPPA GREGORY There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that...
GREGORY PECK As far as protecting yourself against Alzheimer's disease, well, it turns out that fish oil has ...
GREGORY PETSKO We hope we can slow or possibly reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's.
GREGORY BENFORD The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyra...
LADY GREGORY I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Cool...
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