"I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution."

-- Gore Vidal

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“Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don't pitch every journalist.”
“Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access; but when they do want them, they want them badly.”
“Everyone has a purpose because God is a purposeful God.”
“On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.”
“Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.”
“One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.”
“I was toying with the idea of ambivalence a lot. It's something I work on, not being so invested in outcomes and being more engaged in the process of my life.”
“My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.”

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