“ Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ Las Vegas is Everyman's cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperor's orgy is now a democratic institution. Topless Pizza Lunch. ”
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“ Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men. ”
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“ Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes. ”
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“ when we say a man or woman is a credit to the race, we should mean no more or less than the human race. The war against injustice and bigotry and greed started well before 1774 and will trouble our history till the end of time. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ when we say a man or woman is a credit to the race, we should mean no more or less than the human race. The war against injustice and bigotry and greed started well before 1774 and will trouble our history till the end of time. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy. ”
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“ Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ Curiosity... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses… ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses… ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ Curiosity... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ Curiosity … endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ Curiosity... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses… ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy. ”
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