"Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy."

-- Noam Chomsky

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“Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.”
“It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.”
“We're in a situation now where we've got five long-play records of sort of eerie psychedelic pop music. I don't think that we can make another one. That's really my position on it. If we were to do a film soundtrack or something else where I could take the rest of the band with me. I really don't think bands should make more than five records anyway. In fact, five is one too many. We'll have to see how it pans out.”

Source : "The Clientele's Alasdair MacLean draws inspiration from hangovers and accidental acid trips". Interview with Maggie Serota, music.avclub.com. February 21, 2010.
“It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.”
“I would often go on as myself, when I wasn't working. And the first time I went on as myself, two people came up and asked me what I was doing and who I was.”

Source : "Up Close With 2011’s Oscar Women: Glenn Close, Carey Mulligan, Tilda Swinton". Interview with Steve Pond, www.thewrap.com. November 25, 2011.
“The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.”

Source : Bryan Stevenson (2014). “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption”, p.21, Spiegel & Grau
“If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.”
“From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.”

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