Quote by Susan Orlean
I dont turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are

I dont turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture. – Susan Orlean

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There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic. – Susan Orlean

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power
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Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldnt have to come in contact with it. – Susan Orlean

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car
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Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things – the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space. – Susan Orlean

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Experience
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It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. – Adam Schiff

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Wisdom

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike

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Wisdom

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute. – James Buchanan

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Wisdom

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. – George Combe

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Wisdom

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Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. – Henri Becquerel

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Decisions

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. – Robert Byrne

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Kwanzaa

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness – a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster – children into strength and athletic proportion. – William C. Bryant

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strength

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press. – Christian Lous Lange

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communication