"I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene"

-- David McCullough

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“In general, fire is used to throw enemies into confusion so that you can attack them.”
“The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.”
“Dreams are never just dreams, they are reality waiting to happen.”
“I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on.”
“We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.”
“Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know which was worse, the drinking or the praying. As far back as he could remember, it seemed that his father had fought the Devil all the time.”

Source : "Donald Ray Pollock On Finding Fiction Late In Life". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 26, 2011.
“If an institution has become so large that there is no alternative except for the taxpayers to provide support, should we allow so many institutions to exceed that kind of threshold?”
“I don't know what love is. Two words I don't like to use is 'love' and 'sorry,' because I'm about hate.”

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