"Everybody's word is worth Nobody's taking."

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Source : "Sketches from Life". Book by Samuel Laman Blanchard, Volumes 1-2, 1846.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

“We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.”

Source : "Oliver Stone on War, George Bush, Ken Burns, and His New Show". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. November 14, 2012.
“The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.”
“There are lots of stories in the Bible, but all the stories are telling one Big Story. The Story of how God loves his children and comes to rescue them.”
“I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?”
“I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.”

Source : Delmore Schwartz (1985). “Letters of Delmore Schwartz”, Persea Books
“I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.”
“Part of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions--not just constant sunshiny happiness.”
“Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't make any sense that the whole point of enlightenment would be to escape from the whole process at the very instant that the universe is beginning to awaken to itself.”

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