"The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example."

-- Robert Trout

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“Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.”
“A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.”
“The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.”
“Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.”

Source : The New York Times, p. 36, December 29, 1969.
“I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.”

Source : "Colm Meaney’s Manifest Destiny". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 7, 2012.
“You know looking back on it now I used the fight and after the fight as motivation, to make sure I was going to be the best middleweight in the world for a long time.”
“Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.”

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