"Only the rich can get justice, only the poor cannot escape it."

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Source : Henry Demarest Lloyd, Alun Munslow, Owen R. Ashton (1995). “Henry Demarest Lloyd's critiques of American capitalism, 1881-1903”, Edwin Mellen Pr

Henry Demarest Lloyd

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“Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that playing ball is a snap.”
“For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.”

Source : "Out of the traps" by Zoe Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2005.
“Having that North Star for every story [about Batman] is really key for me. It allows me to go farther and farther off the reservation.”

Source : Source: www.denofgeek.com
“I would like to see the lack of demonization for those of us who stand on sincerely held religious beliefs. It's overdue. That's where you see the demonization of people who stand on their beliefs.”
“When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for having on hand a good supply of those pocket books, which were so common in that period. I must have read a couple hundred of them, and they did a lot to save my sanity.”
“Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and desire have the force that oppresses, that takes one's breath away. Only the extremism of desire and death enable one to attain the truth.”
“It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.”
“O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.”

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