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“A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.”
Source : Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.408, Macmillan
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“My fictional worlds were those of a fabulist, of an intellectual fantasist. I was the lawgiver, and the countries and inhabitants of my imagination were answerable to me. If I wished for a man to levitate; to enter another's story by rowboat or by intoning a sentence or by performing a shadow-puppet play; if I wanted him to become a swarm of intelligent elementary particles and enter the Internet and travel into the past and far into the future, it was so.”
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“The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.”
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“Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.”
Source : "POLITICO Interview: Gov. Bredesen". Interview with Alexander Burns, www.politico.com. February 24, 2009. 
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“Connecting with people is not hard. I love the interaction and the feedback after shows. It does take some time, but the fans appreciate it which makes it worth it.”
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“I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul.”
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“I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian.”
Source : David Markson (1995). “Wittgenstein's mistress”, Dalkey Archive Pr
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“Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.”
Source : William Sloane Coffin (2011). “The Heart Is a Little to the Left: Essays on Public Morality”, p.83, UPNE
