"We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates."

-- Denis Diderot

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“Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.”

Source : "Where Civic Republicanism and Deliberative Democracy Meet". The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 26, No. 6, In Search of the Good Society: The Work of Daniel Callahan, pp. 12-14, November/December, 1996.
“I thought I did until I looked at some old game films. (When asked if he played college football)”
“People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, â€œIf this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it.â€ They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.”

Source : Heather O'Neill (2016). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.13, HarperCollins
“With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.”

Source : "Go Forth (vol. 6)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. December 7, 2012.
“I know how to handle women who act like ladies, but my landlady ain't no lady. Sometimes I even wish I was living with my wife again so I could have my own place and not have no landladies.”
“Being an opener is easy because fans aren't expecting anything. However, when you go up there and blow their minds and they flip out that is such an unbelievable feeling, so you want to make sure you bring your everything, every single night to ensure that happens.”
“Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.”
“I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.”

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