"The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is corrupt, inefficient, militaristic, oppressive, repressive, but you don't want to move to Canada or France, what do you do? Well, the way is through secession, where you could stay home and be where you want to be."

-- Kirkpatrick Sale

#Mistake Quotes #Moving Quotes #Home Quotes

“For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but he warns us against the commission of those beings which are esteemed lawful among men....Therefore, with regard to this precept of God, there ought to be no exception at all, but that it is always unlawful to put to death a man, whom God willed to be a sacred animal.”
“To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.”
“Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.”

Source : "Ruth Negga: 'I'm not in any rush to get anywhere'" by Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2012.
“What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" -- and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.”
“I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.”
“Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.”
“We have this sacred cow in our society that what the majority of people want is rightÂ—but is it? Our populace can't really be informed, not the majority of themÂ—most people vote the way they have been manipulated and by the way they have responded to that manipulationÂ—they are working out their own patterns of wishful thinking on the social environment in which they live.”
“Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.”

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