"The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision of positive law, is evidence of what an age without veneration does to itself and its successors."

-- Russell Kirk

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“You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.”

Source : Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2008.
“The world is full of assholes. What are you doing to make sure you're not one of them?”
“The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.”
“This is the very heart of true morality--not to struggle, not to fight with any weapons, for one's self alone--but to struggle and to fight for the common interest, to wield the power of brain and good right arm if need be for one's family, for the ordered community of life, for the state, for moral principles, humanity, and the common good.”
“With the Internet, you can get lots of info in advance, but a local person who knows how to work the system is invaluable.”
“As a general guideline, never marry anyone that you can't picture helping you go to the bathroom.”
“The Cheney team had, for example, technological supremacy over the National Security Council staff. That is to say, they could read their e-mails. I remember one particular member of the N.S.C. staff wouldn't use e-mail because he knew they were reading it. He did a test case, kind of like the Midway battle, when we'd broken the Japanese code. He thought he'' broken the code, so he sent a test e-mail out that he knew would rile Scooter [Libby], and within an hour Scooter was in his office.”
“I suddenly realized I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad.”

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