"A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security."

-- Herman Kahn

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“Everyone knows dogs. Most people love dogs. I think most American families probably have a dog, but I don't think people really realize or understand just how wonderful and special dogs are.”

Source : "Novelist loses a dog, finds a heroine in 'Suspect'". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2013.
“We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality.”
“I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.”
“As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.”
“The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.”
“If they'd said, "Do you want to be John Wesley Harding or Wesley Stace in 25 years' time?" I would have said Wesley Stace, but I wasn't to know.”

Source : Source: articles.chicagotribune.com
“Some people feel 'transformed' from the first day they begin running; others feel that it's just plain hard work. Most of us realize it is both. I know how great running can feel, but I also know it can feel not so great, even downright awful! It can be fun, but it takes work to have that fun.”
“But gentlemen, as long as I am an American Citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.”

Source : Paul Simon, Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1964). “Lovejoy: Martyr to Freedom”

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