Quote by Renata Adler
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger tha

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. – Renata Adler

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Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. – Renata Adler

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Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. – John Moody

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The Jews greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! Were a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better. – Shimon Peres

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Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history. – Terry Eagleton

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The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970. – Tom Hayden

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My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness. – Janine Turner

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