"That government is best which governs least."

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Henry David Thoreau

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“I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds.”
“Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.”
“The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On One.”
“Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted”
“It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.”
“There are really three players: 'absolutists', for whom it is possible to describe reality as it anyway is; 'constructivists' or 'humanists', for whom there is nothing beyond a world that is relative to human interests and conceptual schemes; and 'ineffabilists', like myself, for whom any describable world indeed exists 'only in relation to man', as Heidegger put it, but for whom, as well, there is an ineffable realm 'beyond the human'.”
“I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.”
“Three things I want in a relationship: Eyes that won't cry, lips that won't lie, and love that won't die.”

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