"Principle I:;: Legal rights are presumptive rights."

-- William Ernest Hocking

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“The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!”
“There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.”
“I'm not honestly a real student of animation. I never was into it all that much. I don't really watch any animated shows.”
“We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation, to represent and promote the values of European civilisation in the world, advance our shared interests by using our collective power to open markets, and to build a strong economic base across the whole of Europe.”
“I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist. Each book hopefully adds another piece to the jigsaw that is modern Scotland, asking questions about the nation's politics, economy, psyche and history ... and perhaps pointing towards its possible future.”
“I have a real problem when people say, "Well I walked by and you should have seen what was on the computer screen." Well, don't look, sweetie. It's none of your business. Avert your eyes.”

Source : "A Library That Would Rather Block Than Offend," by Pamela Mendels, The New York Times, archive.nytimes.com. January 18, 199.
“My parents do a lot of things behind the scenes that go unnoticed.”
“When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted.”

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