"As a reformer the liberal is dissatisfied with things as they are because they violate his exceptionally tender conscience.... Liberalism does not advocate change for its own sake, but for the sake of something better in the direction of what he regards as good, namely, the maximum of liberty consistent with a regard for all men and all interests -- the general happiness based on peace and justice."

-- Ralph Barton Perry

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“When I'm making records, I don't go in with any intentional [ideas for] cohesion, it just happens by accident. That's the X factor; you can't predict that.”

Source : Source: www.spin.com
“Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I think, that at both ends of human life span the bond between human and dog speaks with an insistent clarity - if we have the ears to hear.”

Source : Marjorie Garber (1997). “DOG LOVE”, Touchstone
“You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches”
“Now that you are dead, you are splendid. Photographs of people who have just died are worth twenty percent more, and for suicides there is an additional five percent. Now that you are dead you are much in demand.”
“If we succeeded, we will have the primary satisfaction of ending the war”
“My perfect Sunday is waking up at 10 - which, you know, those days are over for me - but waking up at 10, breakfast with children, hanging out with well-behaved children.”
“But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way”
“There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.”

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