"When a republic's most venerable institutions no longer operate as they were intended, it becomes possible for small cabals to usurp power, and, while keeping the forms, corrupt the function of those institutions for their own ends. Looking at things that way, the George W. Bush presidency has been both result and symptom of the decadence of America's constitutional mechanisms."

-- T. D. Allman

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“When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary landscapes.”
“We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback.”
“Offense is the essence of air power.”
“How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.”
“...Maybe Hell ain't a place meant for us to Burn, maybe Earth is Hell and just a place for us to Learn..”

Source : FaceBook post by David Banner from Mar 25, 2011
“The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.”
“I also like Juliette Lewis - I think she's great.”
“Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of two circumstances: either a very sudden change of the temperament (or the bad effect of a contrary temperament) or a solution of continuity.”

Source : Avicenna (1999). “The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)”, Abjad Book Designers & Builders

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