"The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs."

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Erich Leinsdorf

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“Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.”
“When Caesar says, 'do this,' it is perform'd.”
“The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. Â The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to â€œhelp.â€”
“...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrendered their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it.”

Source : John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.50, Penguin
“Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.”
“The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.”
“There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.”
“I think because "Dollhouse" was the first story that I put out. It was the first thing that people were able to listen to and find the aesthetic of my music, so I figured we could use that as a title.”

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