"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered."

-- Dorothy Thompson

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“Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.”
“All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.”
“Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him”
“Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.”
“Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.”
“Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.”
“Once He created the Big Bang... He could have envisioned it going in billions of directions as it evolved, including billions of life-forms and billions of kinds of intelligent beings. As a theologian, I would say that the proposed search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is also a search of knowing and understanding God through his works - especially those works that most reflect Him. Finding others than ourselves would mean knowing Him better.”
“All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.”

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