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“The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.”
Source : Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.91, Zola Books
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“The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoidal peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or metal mines.”
Source : John T. Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”
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“Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.”
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“The net poses a fundamental threat not only to the authority of the government, but to all authority, because it permits people to organize, think, and influence one another without any institutional supervision whatsoever.”
Source : "My First Flame". Brave New World Dept., www.newyorker.com. June 6, 1994. 
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“I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.”
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“It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.”
Source : pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”
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“We have to play as a team at our best every night.”
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“I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.”
