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Thomas Jefferson

"The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.”
“She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said "mother," everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said "child"...”
“That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it.”
“Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
“You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.”
“people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times Magazine, 9 May 1993
“The harsh, unyielding reality of having to compromise your ideals bit by bit, day by day, just to achieve a few little victories in the face of the worldâ€™s malice, or indifference. Until sometimes you wonder if thereâ€™s nothing left of you but the shell of the man you intended to be, just going through the motions because youâ€™ve nothing better to do.”

Source : Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.124, Penguin
“As an artist, you are always striving toward an ultimate achievement but never seem to reach it.Â You shoot a film, and the result could have always been better. You try again, and fail once more. In some ways I find it enjoyable. You never lose sight of your goal. I donâ€™t do my job to make money or to break box office records, I simply try things out. What would happen if I were to achieve perfection at some point? What would I do then?”

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