"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you."

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Source : "Painkiller Deathstreak" by Nicholson Baker, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 2010.

Dick Cheney

#Taken Quotes #4th Of July Quotes #Patriotic Quotes

“I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.”
“Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas.”
“I do make myself be interested in places in a way that I don't make myself be interested in people.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.”
“The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.”
“Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then be juxtaposed against scenes from the past. But the stories from the past were always more interesting that the things in the present. I find this almost endemic to modern plays that veer between past and present. . . . So as we've gone on developing GOLDEN CHILD, the scenes from the past have become more dominant, and all that remains of the present are these two little bookends that frame the action.”
“Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.”
“History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.”

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