Ten Random Quotes

"Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eyes."
Samuel Johnson

"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."
Richard Avedon

"What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war."
Simone Weil

"Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up."
Newton N. Minow

"America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people."
Lord Byron

"Fashions fade, style is eternal."
Yves Saint Laurent

"The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear."
Josh Billings

"It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly."
Oscar Wilde

"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."
Andrew Johnson

"Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it."
Terry Jones

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