"A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society."

-- Walter Lippmann

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“Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.”

Source : "Song: "Nuthin’ But a „G“ Thang" ("The Chronic")". November 19, 1992.
“Yaron has elevated the way Australia perceives circus, both nationally and internationally ... I mean remarkable.”
“Big feature films are another world.”
“So that's the challenge, you have a big technical aspect of what you're doing whilst you're creatively trying to improvise.”
“Mine, said the stone,mine is the hour.I crush the scissors,such is my power.Stronger than wishes,my power, alone.Mine, said the paper,mine are the wordsthat smother the stonewith imagined birds,reams of them, flownfrom the mind of the shaper.Mine, said the scissors,mine all the knivesgashing through paper'sethereal lives;nothing's so properas tattering wishes.As stone crushes scissors,as paper snuffs stoneand scissors cut paper,all end alone.So heap up your paperand scissor your wishesand uproot the stonefrom the top of the hill.They all end aloneas you will, you will.”
“There's only just so much you can do; I prefer to do only a couple of things and go to some depth in them.”

Source : "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2002.
“I don't tend to look at myself through the rearview mirror where dates are concerned. I have blinders on the past and try to look forward.”
“This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To hope that it can ever become anything else is the vainest of delusions. They tell you that Anarchy, the dream of social order without government, is a wild fancy. The wildest dream that ever entered the heart of man is the dream that mankind can ever help itself through an appeal to law, or to come to any order that will not result in slavery wherein there is any excuse for government.”

Source : Eleventh of November 1887: Haymarket Memorial Speech by Voltairine de Cleyre, delivered in Chicago, contentdm.library.uvic.ca. 1901.

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