"Hitch your wagon to a star."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.”
“The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.”

Source : "Feeding Frenzy" by Laura Shapiro, www.newsweek.com. May 26, 1991.
“We see now that infringement of freedom is necessary with regard to the opponents of the revolution. At a time of revolution we cannot allow freedom for the enemies of the people and of the revolution. That is a surely clear, irrefutable conclusion.”

Source : "Programme of the World Revolution". Book by Nikolai Bukharin. Chapter VII: "Freedom for the Working Class and the poorest Elements of the Peasantry; Restrictions for the Bourgeoisie", www.marxists.org. 1918.
“The tough competition among German manufacturers makes us fundamentally strong.”
“For some reason, that I canâ€™t really explain, at the beginning of Radiolab, it always felt like life or death. Even though it was just a radio show. Even though no one was listening. And I am not quite sure whyâ€¦ but it may have to do with that radical uncertainty you feel when you are trying to work without a template.”
“Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.”
“I'm aware the fans in the U.S. can be less forgiving...I'll just have to do my best to please them.”
“Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.”

Source : "A general talks storm lessons since Katrina". Interview with Ashley Fantz, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2011.

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