"I want to be ripped apart by music..."

-- Jeff Buckley

“I don't use my money to gain political influence for my private interests, which is what many rich people do, and what, in a sense, market fundamentalism does, because it is in the interests of people who have a lot of money to have as little taxes as possible.”
“I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.”
“I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.”

Source : "Reforming the Way Washington Works". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2010.
“When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.”

Source : Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”
“It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.”
“There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs.”
“I, for one, will join in with anyone -- I don't care what color you are -- as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth.”
“What is the use of fighting for the vote if we do not have a country to vote in? With that patriotism that has nerved women to endure torture in prison for the national good, we ardently desire that our country shall be victorious.”

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