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“The press, watchful with more than the hundred eyes of Argus, strong with more than the hundred arms of Briareus, not only guards all the conquests of civilization, but leads the way to future triumphs.”
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“Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there.”
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“At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to their state legislator’s house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?”
Source : "At What Point Do People Revolt?" by Erick Erickson, www.redstate.com. March 31, 2009.
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“As a kid I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.”
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“Our most natural state is joy. It is the foundation for love, compassion, healing, and the desire to alleviate suffering.”
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“Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts.”
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“Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.”
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“Only human beings can look directly at something, have all the information they need to make an accurate prediction, perhaps even momentarily make the accurate prediction, and then say that it isn't so.”
Source : Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company