"I was never promised any special treatment or consideration for fingering star players. I was never coerced to provide information against anyone. All that I was ever told to was to tell the truth to the best of my ability. And that is what I have done."

-- Jim Lehrer

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“Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we actually lived in a pure democracy (and the system we do live in is not even close), where everyone got a single vote on every subject, forcing the minority to obey the majority is no different to one man, if he had the power, forcing everyone else to do what he wanted them to-simply because he could.”
“Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.”
“I never have an opinion about clothes and know nothing about fashion.”

Source : "Teen Wolf's Dylan O'Brien on the MTV series and his starring role in The First Time". Interview with Tommy Wesely, www.teenvogue.com. May 22, 2011.
“So little have thee first Christians (who despoiled the Jews of their Bible) understood the first four chapters of Genesis in their esoteric meaning, that they never perceived that not only was no sin intended in this disobedience, but that actually the 'Serpent' was 'the Lord God' himself, who, as the Ophis, the Logos, or the bearer of divine creative wisdom, taught mankind to become creators in their turn.”

Source : H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.722, Penguin
“It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that "We have done it once, and if the new lot let us down, we can do it again!" It was that proud, menacing confidence which made the French revolution special. But it's not around in 21st-century Europe. After 1989, the people handed over liberty to the experts. Will they ever want it back?”
“I like someone who has a super gentle spirit and energy. Iâ€™m really gentle, and so I like a boy who will treat me that way.”
“Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.”

Source : Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.177, Rowman & Littlefield
“There's no regrets for me.”

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