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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#conception #elude #find #forever #harmonious

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.


Harry Emerson Fosdick


#acts #ideas #live #people

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#being #danger #depressing #life #pessimist

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#critics #ever #generation #his #idea

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#age #became #children #continued #elders

Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.


Dick Thornburgh


#constitutionally #defined #enshrined #federal #federal law

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.


Voltaire


#granted #i #lord #made #make

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#american women #bewildered #faces #maps #most

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#axiom #done #eyes #forgotten #front

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.


John W. Vessey, Jr.


#clocks #get #going #making #our