"The Sixties are now considered a historical..." - Quote by Dave Barry
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
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“Your job is to give people a reason to keep reading.”
“I don't like anything unsigned in a newspaper that purports to be the opinion of some group if we don't know who the group is. It's laughable to say that The Miami Herald's editorials or any newspaper's editorials represent any views other than those of the people writing them, so why don't we tell everybody who they are?”
“Software: These programs give instruction to the CPU, which processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of a second it sends you an error message that requires you to call the customer-support hot line and be placed on hold for approximately the life-span of a caribou.”
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“I hate it when my leg falls asleep. I know that means it's going to be up all night.”
“You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.”
“Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.”
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“I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.”
“The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.”
“No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.”