"At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities."

-- Clarence H. Burns

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“A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.”
“To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.”

Source : FaceBook post by Les Paul from Nov 30, 2015
“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity...will respect the less important and arbitrary ones... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
“The bad-boy label is just an assumption.”
“The Earth needs rebels!”
“With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder, that hath set you free From old oppression.”

Source : Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.284
“No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].”
“People are moved by my story, but they're only moved by my story because of what I do on the court.”

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