"The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws."

-- Edmund Burke

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“I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.”

Source : Archie Fairly Carr (1967). “So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles”
“Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.”

Source : Dawn Powell (1995). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931-1965”
“Not only when one does meditation one is getting into a different realm, cognitively, but if you look at the imaging that's done on people when they're meditating, they indeed are entering a different portion of the brain which is activated.”
“Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him.... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables.”
“Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries.”

Source : 1937 Mr Bonaparte. Golden Boy, act1, sc.2.
“Of course as soon as I say something or write it that sounds like I believe it, and really I'm never entirely sure.”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com
“Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.”
“My heroes were always soccer players.”

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