"Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word "democracy.""

-- Gore Vidal

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“Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.”

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“People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.”
“Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country's cause, a Declaration of Independence, and call upon the world and the Great God who governs it to witness the necessity, propriety and rectitude thereof.”
“Life is a photograph too, so thank you,for not removing yourself from the picture just yet.”
“Ah, stupid, you know I love you, too.”
“Too many people are surfing the web and trying to figure out the politics of getting a movie made or taking meetings and trying to get someone to read something instead of creating a truly great script, because something great has a great chance of getting made, but something average that you've sort of talked people into reading doesn't have as good a shot.”
“If you try to do your best there is no failure.”
“How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?”

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