"Fred Astaire. Not a handsome man. He said himself he couldn't sing. He was balding his whole life. He danced like a cheetah runs with the grace of the first creation. I mean, that first week. On one of those days God created Fred Astaire. Saturday maybe, since that was the day for the pictures. When you s Fred you felt better about everything. He was a cure. He was bottled in the films and all around the earth, from Castlebar to Cairo, he healed the halt and the blind. That's the gospel truth. St. Fred. Fred the Redeemer."

-- Sebastian Barry

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“No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified.”

Source : "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" by Robert Nozick, (p. 297), 1974.
“Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.”
“In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage - including unfair damage - from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.”

Source : "Candidate Fundraising: Is This All Messed Up, or Am I Wrong?" by Greta Van Susteren, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.
“The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!”

Source : Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.551
“Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.”
“I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.”
“Work with your mind; don't let your mind work over you.”
“It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.”

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