"You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him"

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George Plimpton

#Cutting Quotes #Kansas Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.”
“To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.”
“Things you never thought were going to turn into something end up being the most important things in your life. You have to learn to not try to control it.”
“In everything one must consider the end.”
“His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else.”
“Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect. They know that basic human problems can have no final solutions, that our freedom, justice, equality, etc. are far from absolute, and that the good life is compounded of half measures, compromises, lesser evils, and gropings toward the perfect. The rejection of approximations and the insistence on absolutes are the manifestation of a nihilism that loathes freedom, tolerance, and equity.”
“The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.”

Source : Yale University. Art Gallery, Katherine Sophie Dreier (1950). “Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 [presented to Yale University]”
“Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.”

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