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Wright Patman

"I have never yet had anyone who could, through the use of logic and reason, justify the Federal Government borrowing the use of its own money... I believe the time will come when people will demand that this be changed. I believe the time will come in this country when they will actually blame you and me and everyone else connected with the Congress for sitting idly by and permitting such an idiotic system to continue."

Source : Congressional Record of the House of Representatives, Volume 87, Part 7, pp. 7582-7583, September 29, 1941.

Wright Patman

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“Just to be clear, Ray Rice was not fired for beating his wife. He was fired because a video of him beating his wife was released.”
“The violence perpetrated by men against women must stop - and it's up to men to stop it. It is up to men to speak up and step in when they witness violence against women, and it is up to men to condemn the indefensible actions of the few and assert the will of the many.”
“Computers are good at swift, accurate computation and at storing great masses of information. The brain, on the other hand, is notas efficient a number cruncher and its memory is often highly fallible; a basic inexactness is built into its design. The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it.”
“You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me? What is wrong with you?”
“Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's important to understand what the song is saying, and learn how to tell the story. It takes time. I can't rush it. I really can't rush it.”
“I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself.”
“Or maybe it's time to broaden out some of the African civil wars?”
“Somebody is saying this is inevitable â€“ and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.”

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