"What is the use of freedom of the press if the government is in possession of all the printing presses, what does freedom of assembly avail if all the meeting places belong to the government? In a society in which there is no more personal and economic freedom, even the freest form of the state cannot make political independence possible."

-- Eugen Richter

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“The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful.”
“When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.”

Source : Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.76, Vintage
“It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.”

Source : "The Story Of The Bible". Book by Frederic G. Kenyon, Chapter III, How The Books Of The New Testament Were Written, p. 21, December 1935.
“Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.”
“Remember that for every technique you think you can fall back on, there is a counter for it, or there are times when it cannot be used. When real battle comes, you must remember that some things will not be applicable. Don't think that any one technique is quintessential.”
“I loved doing 'Countdown.' I now consider that I was very, very lucky - not just because it was such a wonderful show to do, but because it lasted for so long.”
“Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or which we infer from such manifestations of the bodily life in other creatures as indicate the presence of a consciousness similar to our own.”
“I despise shopping and department stores.”

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