"Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf are instinctively smarter about this than a good many human political theorists."

-- Eric S. Raymond

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“Never take anything for granted.”
“Thankfully, it is getting better for women composers. We now have five women Pulitzer Prize winners in music since 1983: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Shulamit Ran, Melinda Wagner, Jennifer Higdon, and Caroline Shaw. When Marin Alsop was asked what it felt like to conduct the Last Night of the Proms, she said, "I am exceedingly proud to be 'the first' but I am also a bit shocked that there can still be firsts for women in 2013!"”

Source : Source: www.barbaraharbach.com
“Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.”

Source : "‘Game Of Thrones’ Robb Stark Speaks: Richard Madden Addresses Shocking Developments" by Maureen Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2013.
“Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.”
“I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is from this difficulty - the mistakes and dead ends - that artists develop, not through the quick solutions and not from something you learn and apply.”
“A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value,”

Source : "Charles Koch: I'm Fighting to Restore a Free Society". www.wsj.com. April 2, 2014.
“He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.”
“A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.”

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