"All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power."

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Source : Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. August 3, 2007.

Clive James

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“His full name is Matthew Gabriel Philippe Bertrand Sebastien de Clermont. He was also a very good Sebastien, and a passable Gabriel. He hates Bertrand and will not answer to Philippe.”
“If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it.”

Source : Nathan Oliveira, Eugenia Parry, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries (1991). “Nathan Oliveira: paintings and works on paper, 1959-1991”
“Trust is the most important aspect of being a journalist. If people don't trust or find you relatable - you will not have success.”

Source : "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
“But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future.”
“The painting is usually finished before you are.”
“Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.”
“Free is not the same as free and easy.”
“No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.”

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