"I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress."

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Source : "Wyoming's Senator Wallop Won't Run in '94", www.nytimes.com. 1993.

Malcolm Wallop

#Fighting Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Congress Quotes

“Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions.”
“...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his phrases. Until her discovery of Something Fresh on the top shelf of Ruth's bookshelf one bored summer morning, Frankie's leisure reading had consister primarily of paperback mysteries she found on the spinning racks at the public library down the block from her house, and the short stories of Dorothy Parker. Wodehouse's jubilant wordplay bore itself into her synapses like a worm into a fresh ear of corn.”
“Why let them order you about? Why let them tell you to hurry and scurry like ants or maggots? Take your time! Saunter a while! Enjoy the sunshine, enjoy the breeze, let life carry you at your own pace! Don't be slaves of time, it's a helluva way to die, slowly, by degrees...down with the Ticktockman!”

Source : "Paingod and Other Delusions". Book by Harlan Ellison, 2009.
“My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind”
“There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.”
“How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this, we many even try to predict the mechanisms or "dynamisms" of the human psyche as well. But man is more than psyche.”
“I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.”
“You look good, you feel good. You feel good, you fight good.”

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