Simeon Strunsky Quotes

• People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

  Simeon Strunsky

  People, Democracy, Library

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• Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

  Simeon Strunsky

  Men, Doors, Waiting

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• A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.

  Simeon Strunsky

  Family, Children, Dining

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• Statistics are the heart of democracy.

  Simeon Strunsky

  Heart, Democracy, Statistics

  Topics of the Times November 30, 1944

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• The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.

  Simeon Strunsky

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

  Simeon Strunsky

  Knowledge, Fame, Remarks

  No Mean City ch. 38 (1944)

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• New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

  Simeon Strunsky

  New York, Mountain, United States

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