"We can't depend on consumers to spend money they don't have on stuff they don't need, so the government has to do it for them"

-- Jacob Sullum

#Government Quotes #Needs Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world.”
“I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable”
“Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is”
“Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.”
“I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much more difficult time with me. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.”
“I'm thinking that it might actually be possible for things to work out sometimes. Definitely not everything and maybe not the way you imagined. But sometimes, when you least expected it, life surprises you.”

Source : Susane Colasanti (2008). “When It Happens”, p.189, Penguin
“There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.”
“I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtueâ€”or rather by viceâ€”of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines”

Source : John Philip Sousa (2010). “Six marches”, p.31, A-R Editions, Inc.

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