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“There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.”
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“All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.”
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“Being a classical musician I'm fascinated with how my colleagues, not just singers, but every musician finds ways to express something else or something new or the same ol', same ol' in classical music. I'm always in dialogue with other musicians at least orally, if I can't be with them and a lot of dead musicians as well. I've learned a lot from dead people on recordings.”
Source : Source: bigthink.com
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“The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom; it is the kingdom come.”
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“My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.”
Source : "Talking Points: Clemens On Viagra & More" by Ryan Murphy, www.askmen.com.
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“Love and passion are well and good while they last, but in the end what mattes is whether you like the person you are with. Friendship and companionship matter more. They are the things that last. And if in the end we learn to be friends, I will be content.”
Source : Arlene J. Chai (1995). “The Last Time I Saw Mother”, Fawcett Books
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“The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and there is the art of what may be called, by a shot-gun marriage of Latin and Greek, the demaslave. They are complementary, and both of them are degrading to their practitioners. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself.”
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“Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid health.”