"What do they do for a village idiot when you're here?"

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Tanya Huff

#Village Quotes #Village Idiots Quotes #Idiot Quotes

“A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.”
“The function of State coercion is to override individual coercion, and, of course, coercion exercised by any association of individuals within the State. It is by this means that it maintains liberty of expression, security of person and property, genuine freedom of contract, the rights of public meeting and association, and finally its own power to carry out common objects undefeated by the recalcitrance of individual members.”

Source : Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1964). “Liberalism”, p.78, Oxford University Press on Demand
“I have a fierce desire to paint colour.”
“It seems hardly fair to quarrel with a place because its staple commodity is not pretty, but I am sure I should have liked Cincinnati much better if the people had not dealt so very largely in hogs.”

Source : Frances Trollope (2015). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.65, Sheba Blake Publishing
“Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.”
“Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.”
“God can only do for you what He can do through you.”
“I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview: Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers". www.pbs.org.

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