"I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired."

-- Roger Nash Baldwin

#People Quotes #Justice Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?" "The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?”
“Only successful businesses can create and secure jobs.”
“There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.”
“My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested.”
“As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.”
“You know what I'll do? I'll get a knife and cut out his tongue, and we'll send it to his wife”
“In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained; someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.”
“All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.”

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