"After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary."

-- William J. Brennan

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“I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.”
“Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.”
“For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.”
“I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.”
“Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.”
“I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid and the Sphinx. At the bottom, which was filled with water, we have found a burial chamber with four pillars. In the middle is a large granite sarcophagus which I expect to be the grave of Osiris, the god,”
“The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.”
“If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.”

Source : Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.6, Paul & Company Pub Consortium

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