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“Your mother says that to justify the fact that she isn’t being fair to you,” Mrs. Grace said calmly. “Which is mostly what people mean when they say ‘life isn’t fair.’ It isn’t, which is why people should endeavor to be more fair to one another, not less.”
“A successful dinner party needs just one person all the others loathe, Pete—it gives everyone something to unite against.”
“But it was also a lot of young people who thought maybe the children, the ones you’re flag-waving about now, the ones who were starving in gutters back then, deserved more of a slice of the pie than they were getting.”
“Firebrands ask questions, and a nation where you can’t ask questions is one that is going downhill.”
Live as long as I have and you’ll realize that whether the organization you put your faith in brandishes a Bible or a copy of Das Kapital, the haves in that organization are rarely interested in sharing with the have-nots.”
