"There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand."

-- Charles Peguy

“In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints.”
“I love my mother. I do love her.”

Source : "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. November 11, 2005.
“To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed, but they are the parasites of the oppressed.”
“Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.”

Source : Mark Van Doren (1939). “Collected Poems, 1922-1938”
“To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.”
“...I have an IQ of about 160, I taught science for about fifteen years...”
“No nation can advance unless the old ideals of exploration and adventure are lived. There must be lives lost in flying, as in every other step of progress, and as many lives have been lost in the past, but there is no need to run foolish risks. The search for adventure need not entail foolhardiness. Fear is a tonic and danger should be something of a stimulant”
“I live in a van, down by the river!”

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