"Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches."

-- John Locke

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“I set my life since then attempting to figure out how to do that, basically how to have a sort of public discourse in which anything and everything are open to conversation and in which the thought experiment is a means by which to posit all manner of different realities, potential futures.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I'm a recreational pot-smoker. There has never been enough of a distinction between ***** and other drugs. It's a human rights issue, a censorship issue, and a choice issue.”
“I'm 33 years old now. I really want that ring. I got a taste of it here.”

Source : Latrell Sprewell during Press Conference, www.insidehoops.com. October 11, 2003.
“We simply cannot continue to live with a [tax] system which has so many inequities. It must be changed in such a way that each of us pays a fair share of the burden. It has been said that one man's loophole is another man's livelihood. Even if this is true, it certainly is not fair, because the loophole-livelihood of those who are reaping undeserved benefits can be the economic noose of those who are paying more than they should.”

Source : Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins
“Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.”
“I watch Raffy as she removes the pickles from her hamburger and hands them over to Santangelo without them exchanging a word and I realize again there is more to that relationship than spelling bees and being enemies. These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking.”
“No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.”
“Fear of our own depths is the enemy.”

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