"The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defense correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons."

-- E. P. Thompson

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“My young love said to me,'My brothers won't mind, And my parents won't slight you for your lack of kind.' Then she stepped away from me, and this she did say, 'It will not be long, love, till our wedding day.”
“I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.”
“Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”

Source : Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy: Paradise”, Xist Publishing
“I don't think ultimately presidents are judged by crowd sizes at their inauguration. I think they're judged by their accomplishments.”
“Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. Well, perhaps you are right. Perhaps the wise spurn one to remain safe from the other, but I should rather choose to have my eyes burnt in their sockets than to have been born without.”
“I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.”

Source : "Garfield Hits the Big Screen". Interview with Rachel Laskow, www.scholastic.com.
“Once you're a mom, all of your personal desires come secondary as the survival of the child becomes your life's priority, which leads you to worry each day and every night the little one turn out right.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?”

Source : Interview with Studs Terkel, 1960.

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