"I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it. A lawyer can do anything with cross-examination if he is skillful enough not to impale his own cause upon it.”

Source : John Henry Wigmore, John Theodore McNaughton, Peter Tillers, James Harmon Chadbourn (1974). “Evidence in trials at common law”
“A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.”
“I have never yet had anyone who could, through the use of logic and reason, justify the Federal Government borrowing the use of its own money... I believe the time will come when people will demand that this be changed. I believe the time will come in this country when they will actually blame you and me and everyone else connected with the Congress for sitting idly by and permitting such an idiotic system to continue.”

Source : Congressional Record of the House of Representatives, Volume 87, Part 7, pp. 7582-7583, September 29, 1941.
“My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.”

Source : Walker Percy (2011). “The Second Coming”, p.66, Open Road Media
“May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.”
“I think our literary tradition has to evolve, has to explore its form and its spirit through writers and thinkers, rather than let the lazy, easy traditional narrative - which is controlled by the publishing industry - roll all over the readers and dominate the market. I think our readers and cinemagoers have been trained to read and watch very mainstream stuff. It's like being given sleeping pills. It sends people to a non-reflective sleep state.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.”
“My focus was always toward imagery of some sort.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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