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“The peculiar grace of a shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it.”
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“An earthmover was there, but instead of placing a casket into the ground, it was taking one out.
They're removing the dead. Taking him to the suburbs.
White flight. Black flight. Now dead flight.”
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They're removing the dead. Taking him to the suburbs.
White flight. Black flight. Now dead flight.”
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“Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed” and “A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.”
― Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
― Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
“There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day.”
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct.”
― The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
― The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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