"A conscience is like a boat or a car. If you feel you need one, rent it."

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Source : "Remembering J.R. Ewing, Television's Greatest Villain: A Tribute to Larry Hagman" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 24, 2012.

JR

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“Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive for government to deprive people of their unalienable, individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to make an utter mess of their own lives. Since human beings are inclined to learn more from the mistakes they make, rather than from their triumphs, the right to fail, for individuals and groups alike, may be even more important than the right to succeed, and it must be fiercely protected at almost any cost.”
“A story is a way to say something that canâ€™t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.”
“Whoever said laughter is the best medicine had clearly never tasted scotch.”
“Music is poetry with personality.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 21, 2011
“I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.”
“We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our motherâ€™s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.”

Source : Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.468, Simon and Schuster
“Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.”
“I wouldn't go to war over Ukraine.”

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