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“Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.”
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“You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about it, but it goes on without us, or in spite of us.”
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“Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.”
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“I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.”
Source : "The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. November 4, 1987. 
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“Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and speculative licentiousness, not one writer of talent has been employed to refute and confound the fashionable doctrines, nor the least care taken to disseminate works of another complexion.”
Source : Arthur Young (1889). “Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789”
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“I was told by my father, who was a priest, that it was the basic duty of a Muslim to establish peace on earth... I soon came to the conclusion that it was not religion but misuse of religion and politicising of religion, which was the main culprit.”
Source : Asghar Ali Engineer's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.
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“When you miss the target, never in history has it been the target's fault. Ya gotta take responsibility!”
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“[A God-thing is] when something happens in your life, and you look at it and can't explain how or why it happened, but you know there's a reason for it. You know that God is doing something in your life, and it changes you. There's no other way to explain it except to see it as a God thing.”
Source : Robin Jones Gunn (2009). “Christy Miller Collection”, p.197, Multnomah
