"In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims."

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Source : "Court Says Military Funeral Protesters Are Protected". "Morning Edition" with Stebe Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 2, 2011.

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“The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with the amount of vocabulary and the complexity of grammatical rules which the user must keep in mind. Economy of notation is therefore important.”

Source : "Notation as a Tool of Thought". Cvommunications of the ACM, 23 (8), (pp. 444 - 465), August 1980.
“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.”
“Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.”
“How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.”

Source : Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.105, McClelland & Stewart
“The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.”
“Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.”

Source : Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.180, Bantam
“Im 23, so Im not done with my life. But acting, definitely, out of what Ive done so far, makes me feel the most alive and is very invigorating and thrilling. So I figured I might as well try it for a while.”
“Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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