"Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire."

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Source : George Cooper Stevens, John Mason Brown (1974). “Speak for yourself, John: the life of John Mason Brown, with some of his letters and many of his opinions”, Viking Adult

John Mason Brown

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“I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.”
“Vote to stand tall against terrorists ; receive Social Security privatization . Vote to strike a blow against elitism; receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our lifetimes , in which workers have been stripped of power and CEOs are rewarded in a manner beyond imagining.”
“We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.”
“The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.”
“I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.”
“It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often.”
“When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following months, I not only lost 50 pounds, but gained strength in my legs and picked up stamina. Now, at age 93, I'm on the same plant-based diet, and I still don't eat any meat or dairy products. I either swim, walk, or paddle a canoe daily and I feel the best I've felt since my heart problems began.”
“Just six days after its release on iTunes, a record-breaking 33 million people have already listened to the album.”

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