"What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court case behind this, no statute from Congress or the state legislatures. It was accomplished in a private corporate decision. The banks just did it."

-- Christopher Peterson

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“Aren't the stars beautiful? Thousands of them twinkling so far from us, yet so near. Who knows what it's like in the universe where they are? ... I can't breathe when I look at them. I bet somewhere out there we could understand what life is really about, and find a way to bring a bit more meaning into this world.”
“As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm... it's hard for the audience to relate to them.”

Source : "Writer-Director Brian Helgeland". Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. May 12, 2001.
“Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.”
“Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.”
“And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.”
“Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash â€˜for funâ€™. Even today, Facebook believe that â€˜done is better than perfectâ€™.”
“Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.”

Source : Robert Harbison (1977). “Eccentric Spaces”, p.20, MIT Press
“Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.”

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