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"But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me."

"As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal."

"In 1980, Chinese-Americans were certainly considered perpetual foreigners to America, even more so than today. In addition, Asians, in general, were regarded as poor, uneducated, and manual laborers—c…"

"Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him."

"What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to sto…"

"The struggle against the religious absurdity is more than ever a necessity today."

"Now, I don’t pretend to know all the answers. I’m just a plain, ordinary, everyday genius who loves her fellow-man whenever possible. But let me tell you that women are getting very tired of running a…"

"Nor was my attendance at the Polo Grounds limited to baseball games. I sat in the lower left field stands to watch the championship professional football game between the undefeated Chicago Bears led …"

"I make a point of writing, if only a little, every day, as a kind of discipline so that it is not a whim but a piece of work."

"Gordon and his friends had quite an exciting time with their 'subversive ideas'. For a whole year they ran an unofficial monthly paper called the Bolshevik, duplicated with jellygraph. It advocated So…"

"Much of what Negroes fight for today is not to gain new ground but to restore positions once dearly won and foully taken away."

"I used to be a hide-bound Tory simply for traditional and antiquarian reasons—and because I had never done any real thinking on civics and industry and the future. The depression—and its concomitant p…"

"There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sin…"

"An interviewer had researched Lyttelton's other interests and asked him about "orthinology" . Lyttelton said that he kept a straight face and answered the question but 24 hours later thought of what h…"

"Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity."

"The struggle between the two worlds can permit no compromises. The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief — either we or they, e…"

"Scottish literature begins effectively with Archdeacon Barbour's Bruce some sixty years after Bannockburn, and to the Bruce and Blind Harry's Wallace must be attributed much of the colouring and subse…"

"Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. Present-day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation and…"

"He is on his way to becoming possibly the greatest of all time. But he's still human."

"I think Londoners find it bizarre that ten weeks after the allegations in the Evening Standard, you haven't questioned Lee . All these questions about Lee — he can come down from his office now and an…"