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“Ultimately, though, like so many things, it was a matter of perception—how we decided to look at what was in front of us.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“In the words of the American urbanist Lewis Mumford, writing in 1961, suburbia was “a multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to a common mold.”
― A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
― A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
“Long exposures—which in this context mean exposures longer than a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second—show only a blur.”
― Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
― Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
“You’ve come too far and worked too hard to return to a life of dishonesty and denial and emotional abuse. You deserve someone who treats you better, much better—”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
“On June 20, 1790, Hamilton sat down for a fateful meal with the two most influential Virginians other than the president: Jefferson, who hosted the meal, and Madison. (There may have been another guest or two.) While Hamilton wanted the capital in New York, he needed assumption, and was willing to trade away the former to ensure congressional approval of the latter. And so—over a decadent meal of stuffed rooster, French pot roast, and, for dessert, cookies and ice cream—these leaders brokered one of the most significant deals in American political history.”
― The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton
― The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton
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