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Magazines devoted to the religion of success appear as Makers of America. They mean just about that when they preach evolution, progress, prosperity, being constructive, the American way of doing things. It is easy to laugh, but, in fact, they are using a very great pattern of human endeavor. For one thing it adopts an impersonal criterion; for another it adopts an earthly criterion; for a third it is habituating men to think quantitatively. To be sure the idea confuses excellence with size, happiness with speed, and human nature with contraption. Yet the same motives are at work which have ever actuated any moral code, or ever will. The desire fir the biggest, the fastest, the highest, or if you are a maker of wristwatches or microscopes the smallest; the love in short of the superlative and the "peerless," is in essence and possibility a noble passion. — Walter Lippmann

I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive. — Wyclef Jean

Reflecting on the night before, he found it extraordinary that after a lifetime of infidelities, a night with an imaginary friend was no less exciting. — Ian McEwan

However bright a torch might burn it could never match the rising sun. — George R R Martin

I wonder what it was like to be an actor years ago. We're so respected now and I don't think it does us any good. We used to be vagabonds. I want to be a vagabond! — Sophie Thompson

I feel like everything that's happened in my life has been leading up to Jeff and I meeting, falling in love, and becoming successful together. — K.M. Morgan

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy. — Jules Verne

We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge. — David Weinberger

I haven't baked a child in ... decades!
Aunt Maddy from Anbgela's Coven #covenbooks — Bruce Jenvey