"I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast . . . would have sympathized with oppression wherever found, and proved their love of liberty beyond their own share of it."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true”
“The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.”
“I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.”

Source : Interview with Daniel Handler, www.believermag.com. July 2003.
“Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.”
“Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.”

Source : George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.80, A&C Black
“I think humor and terror are very closely related.”
“Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.”
“It's not what we say is a priority, but what we actually DO that's a priority.”

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