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“Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.”
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“It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.”
Source : Davis v. United States, 328 U.S. 582, 597, 1946.
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“To me nonviolence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people. Therefore I am devoting all my energies toward the establishment of a society that would be based on its principles of truth and peace.”
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“I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.”
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“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
Source : J. Spedding (ed.) 'The Works of Francis Bacon' vol. 7 (1859) 'Apophthegms contained in Resuscitatio' no. 36
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“Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision†in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.”
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“Life ends so fast, so take your chance, and make it last.”
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“The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue.”
