"Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional."

-- Lawrence Lessig

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“I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.”
“There is something still more to be dreaded than a Jesuit and that is a Jesuitess.”

Source : Eugène Sue (1844). “The Wandering Jew”, p.256
“The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.”

Source : FaceBook post by Fran Tarkenton from Jun 19, 2013
“Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have a lot of intention behind what I put out there. The reason all this stuff I do works together, the environmental and social, collaborating with ballet companies to score a show, the bike tour - all of that stuff comes together through community building with music.”

Source : "Ben Sollee Interview | Activism by cello? On a bike?". Interview with Amanda Taylor, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“If you have an ongoing relationship with a person, think of everything positive about that person that you possibly can and enter your interaction from that space. Ignore all the crap that used to drive you up the wall before. You will be amazed at what a change this attitude shift brings about.”
“You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.”
“For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.”

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