"While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass."

-- Fred Thompson

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“A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.”
“I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big town, like in the movie 'Hoosiers.' That is one of the things that attracts me to entrepreneurs.”

Source : "The Indomitable Mary Meeker". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. September 21, 2012..
“Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used.”
“I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.”
“I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.”
“Friends tell each other the truth, and then friends stick around for the aftermath.”
“I went to the Mary Lee Burbank School in Belmont. And it was a place where you, like, learned to go to the store? And I was saying, Oh God, I want to learn something else. I wanted to learn to read and write better and do mathematics better. They were very much into Abstract Expressionism and that artsy stuff. And where most kids did what I call meaningless blobs, I could render perfectly.”
“Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.”

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