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Nathaniel Chapman

"He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and, if he is tolerably popular, will, in one successful season, have paved the way for the business of life, for he has enough to do, ever afterward, to stop the mercurial breach of the constitutions of his dilapidated patients. He has thrown himself in fearful proximity to death, and has now to fight him at arm's length as long as the patient maintains a miserable existence."

-- Nathaniel Chapman

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“A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing so; only comparable power or anonymity can do that.”

Source : Nick Harkaway (2012). “The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World”, p.145, Vintage
“As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.”
“Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.”
“People in my band and in my life see me as someone who is seeking out chaos, and that's why it comes to me. And these people who have never met me say because of when I was born and how the planets are aligned, chaos sees me as a portal.”
“The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.”
“Plan for each episode to be a satisfying experience, but still leave the audience thinking, 'Oh, my God! Now what?”
“If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.”
“Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.”

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