"The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America."

-- Marilyn vos Savant

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“We want a Republican majority in the house and the senate, there's no question.”
“In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.”

Source : Harlan Ellison (1989). “Harlan Ellison's watching”
“It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex education programs - when they presume that a reform is an inevitable comcomitant of progress. It is then they are most likely to establish their reforms by top-down bureaucratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues.”
“We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression.”

Source : J. Golden Kimball (2008). “J. Golden Kimball: His Sermons”, p.116, Latter-day Publishing
“What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of man. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is. I declare that taking the average of many minds that have recently come before me ... I should prefer the obedience, affections and instinct of a dog before it.”
“I try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.”

Source : Henry Mitchell (1999). “One Man's Garden”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.”

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