"There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together."

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Source : "The President Finally Accepts America for Ourselves" by Charlie Pierce, www.esquire.com. July 27, 2015.

Charlie Pierce

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“You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.”

Source : David Markson (1988). “Wittgenstein's Mistress”
“The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.”
“God i've missed you. I can't wait to give you your present. He kisses me hotter this time, and beneath me, through his denim and mine. I can feel the promise of his Christmas gift soon to come.”
“This is not our fight', the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your road through the valley of darkness that will lead you to the river Jordan. . . Look hard for your river Jordan, my child. You'll find it.”

Source : Laurie Halse Anderson (2010). “Chains”, p.167, Simon and Schuster
“I just took some ecstasy, ain't no tellin' what the side effects could be.”
“It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about”
“Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.”

Source : Jeff Lindsay (2008). “Dexter in the Dark”, p.22, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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