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The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#american people #cannot #know #our #people

No man surely has so short a memory as the American. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#man #memory #short #surely

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America. ↗

— Patti Davis

#had #i #odd #rivalry #sibling

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#few #governed #laws #observed #state

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down. ↗

— Ted Dexter

#cricket #down #else #endless #grinds

Bricks can be used as yoga blocks, and a blanket as the mat. ↗

— Amy Summers

#brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #random #yoga

Cinema is a mixed form. L'Avventura has characters, it has social context, and these things are not trivial. Its plot is the disappearance of a disappearance. Possibly the most frightening plot imaginable. Forgetting the dead, whom all of history tells us we must remember. But what makes movies themselves, rather than novels or plays, is something else. What is it if not the film medium itself? The purity of the visual, which lies in the silence of the stilled image. The freeze frame. The deeply, deeply silent image. Like death. The image in itself in its silent purity reaches--it reaches!--for the purity of death. ↗

— Frank Lentricchia

#frank-lentricchia #michelangeo-antonioni #the-sadness-of-antonioni #death

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. ↗

— Anita Diament

#explaining #fiction #got #historical #historical fiction

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? ↗

— Princess Diana

#better #compromise #happy #how #just

You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people. ↗

— Russell Simmons

#america #become #cool thing #diversity #know