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The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon

The fifties — they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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teacher
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Twentieth Century
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In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Twentieth Century

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. – Hannah Arendt

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Twentieth Century

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part. – Jerry Garcia

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Twentieth Century

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier — the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises — it is a set of challenges. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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My motivation has always been health – eating healthy and taking care of myself. – Gabrielle Reece

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I consider my refusal to go to the gym today as resistance training. – Author Unknown

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I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world. – James McGreevey

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Faith

I dont know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents marriage. And its interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison. – Jhumpa Lahiri

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