"The critics don't build great cities"

-- Federico Pena

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“First one must understand conditioning - only then can we speak of choice”
“Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in a world where certain conservative aspects had become intellectually dominant. I would actually argue against that, but on the surface of it, in the [Bill] Clinton years the market economy triumphed, certain libertarian ideas became ordinary, and certain early-20th-century ideas about centralization of government and economic planning and socialism with a small "s" had obviously gone out the window. The Cold War was over, blah blah blah.”
“You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.”
“society has no qualms about a masseuse who is paid for touching people, or about laborers, or professional athletes or dancers, all of whom make a living with their bodies. Why should we make an exception for sex?”

Source : Sydney Biddle Barrows, William Novak (1987). “Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows”, Ivy Books
“Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.”

Source : "The World Changers" by Bruce Bliven, (p. 171), 1965.
“I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.”

Source : "Fictional character: Adam Cook". "An American in Paris", www.imdb.com. 1951.
“To try to be better is to be better.”
“Whatever the situation at hand, thats what Im dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.”

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