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.
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In 1889 the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Soonersand Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.Alistair Cooke
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
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Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
Alistair Cooke
In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly, that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the 1st place the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.
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It's an acting job - acting natural.
Alistair Cooke
These humiliations are the essence of the game.
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