"And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist."

-- Barry Goldwater

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“The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.”
“I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.”
“The night ... it is filled with ***** watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen, constellated deities plummeting in ash and smoke, roaming the apocryphal cities, the cities of speculation and reconstituted disorder, of insemination and incipience, swept round with the dark.”
“When you give in to aversion and anger, itâ€™s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your arms around his neck, jump into the water with him, and you both drown. In destroying your enemy, you destroy yourself as well.”
“God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.”
“Almost any problem, whether it's telling a family story, or telling a network-quality story, or answering a network note, becomes essentially instantly solvable, because you have a bunch of brains sitting in a room.”
“I try to do as little as possible without looking like an idiot. Research is fun and easy. Writing is hard. So I try not to let the research become an excuse to not do the writing part.”
“A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.”

Source : 1822 In R B Beckett (ed) Constable's Correspondence, Suffolk Records Society (1962-70).

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