"Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, let us remind ourselves that totalitarianism not only extinguishes liberty but institutionalises poverty as well"

-- Bernard Levin

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“The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced -- that without intelligence we should be brutes -- but it is the tendency of our gaping, wondering dispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world.”
“He came in shouting 'goal of the season' - typical Jonjo. He's got that in the locker.”
“What most artists using photography feel that they need to do is to show that they are serious, that they are not taking snapshots. To point a camera at something does not qualify you as an artist because everybody has done that.”
“Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.”
“It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2013). “Gallatin Canyon”, p.31, Random House
“If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.”
“True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.”
“Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. don't forget that, all of you who don't have them.”

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