"I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way."

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Shelby Foote

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“Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.”
“If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I'd choose the friendships at this point.”
“I've been doing Pilates since 1974, I lift weights, I power walk every day and I run backwards. That's sometimes a little hard when you're not on your home turf, because you've got to find a place where there are no bumps in the way - or people.”

Source : "My body & soul". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2008.
“Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.”
“We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.”
“What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward - neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.”
“He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in the White House, and has proposed a program which is absolutely impossible to carry out except by a revision of the Constitution.”
“It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.”

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