"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

-- Abraham Lincoln

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“Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, the state's first instinct is that of self-preservati on. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient.”

Source : "The Criminality of the State". "The American Mercury" Magazine, March 1939.
“Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?”
“Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.”
“We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.”
“Creative freedom is determined by how we behold the world. Any one of us can make new things with our perceptions that serve as doorways to the creative imagination. No one is excluded.”
“As the BBC approaches the final phase of decisions about its future, it will be important for those involved to be established in post and ready to take responsibility for implementation of the outcome.”

Source : "Dyke's 'posh lady' quits BBC" by Jason Deans, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2004.
“The things that Picasso and I said to one another during those years will never be said again, and even if they were, no one would understand them anymore. It was like being roped together on a mountain.”
“That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.”

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