"When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down."

-- Emile Zola

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“What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.”

Source : Bernard Bailyn (1992). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.160, Harvard University Press
“Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.”

Source : Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”
“All I want to do is realism and follow the tradition of realism. And explore what realism should be now be after the ubiquity of smartphones. I'm trying to answer the question. I don't think I'll ever have the words, but hopefully I'll have a few images.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.”
“As a member of Guess Who, I think 'No Time' was the best thing we ever did. It was a pivotal song in our career.”
“The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I cannot help thinking that the vows most women are made to take are very foolhardy. I doubt whether they would willingly go to the altar to swear that they will allow themselves to be broken on the wheel every nine months.”
“Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.”
“I generally donâ€™t become overexcited about things anyway, Iâ€™m just not one of those people. Iâ€™m not easily surprised by things either. I think itâ€™s because I expect that anything can happen”

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