"Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions - those institutions we proudly called the American way of life."

Source : Douglas MacArthur's speech to the Michigan Legislature in Lansing (May 15, 1952) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), June 14, 2000.

Douglas MacArthur

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“After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.”
“I just don't think CGI is up to manipulating the human face yet. I feel like you can get away with it with aliens or monsters or something that's intentionally foreign, but I have yet to see anything digital to do with the human face that doesn't just look ridiculous.”

Source : "Rian Johnson on his writing process and the appeal of alternate-history films". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 27, 2012.
“If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.”
“Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.”

Source : James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1866). “The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.170
“Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.”
“Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.”
“In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.”
“I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.”

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