"A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon facts. ... What's inside is every fairy-tale monster, a brutal ogre, a bloodthirsty werewolf, an elegant vampire, a scheming devil, a bullying giant, a sneering troll, or maybe just an abusive stepfather."

-- Ron Franscell

#Dream Quotes #Bullying Quotes #Insecurity Quotes

“The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.”
“I'd like the memory of me to be a happy one. I'd like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I'd like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, Of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. I'd like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun of happy memories that I leave when life is done.”
“It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.”
“By making choices consistent with eternal truth you will develop righteous character.”
“In writing I search for believability, simplicity, and emotional impact.”

Source : "Music Legend Hal David Passes, But His Lyrics Still Resonate" by Brian Levin, J.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2012.
“Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.”

Source : Thomas Cahill (2010). “Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World”, p.97, Anchor
“How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?”
“I never punched in anything when I recorded Imaginaryland. Where the title came from is a whole other story.”

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