"Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense."

-- Thomas Frank

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“The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.”

Source : James Bryce “The American Commonwealth: Vol. 4: Illustrations and Reflections & Social Institutions”, Jazzybee Verlag
“If you think I'm a loser, that I'm a bust, that's fine, but you don't know me. I don't have a problem with people thinking I was a bad football player. I wasn't a particularly good pro football player. But I was a great college player, and that's something.”
“The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”

Source : "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 36 (1751)
“I love radio, and I haven't done it - other than the actual 'Doctor Who' - for so long now. It takes a different kind of discipline and a different kind of enjoyment, really.”
“I don't like cruises. Period. My biggest nightmare is being stuck on a boat.”
“We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day.”
“Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.”
“A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.”

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