"Governments and the military purport to protect the public from enemies, and if there were no enemies they would have to invent some, for the simple purpose of rationalizing their existence ...."

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Source : Laurance Labadie (1978). “Selected Essays”

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“There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.”
“By being impatient, matters are damaged and great works cannot be done”

Source : Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.85, Bottom of the Hill
“Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again?”
“Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.”
“David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent.”
“For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.”

Source : David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, p.186, Yale University Press
“Because I'm not a nice lesbian, I'm a big dyke!”
“Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art.”

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