"Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books."

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Source : "Fictional character: Jefferson Smith". "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", www.imdb.com. 1939.

Sidney Buchman

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“You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do.”
“Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do.”

Source : Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.3, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back ...”

Source : Holly Near, Derk Richardson (1990). “Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography”, William Morrow & Company
“As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.”
“In French you say, "I'm alone against the world" and that means "I hate everybody and everybody's against me."”
“The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody”
“I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed...but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime.”
“Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.”

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