"If you can see it, you can have it."

-- Kong Hee

“The problem with movies now is that studios don't take a chance.”
“We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.”
“What I endeavor to do is shine a light on what happens at the court, both as a law clerk and then as a litigator litigating and winning major cases in front of the Supreme Court over and over and over again.”
“We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.”
“Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life that the steps of his progress are taken without improper aids; that he calls no one master, that he does not win or deserve the reputation of being a tool of others, and that if called to public service he may assume its duties with the satisfaction of knowing that he is free to rise to the height of his opportunity.”

Source : Charles Evans Hughes (1910). “Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government”
“Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us glossy and colorful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.”

Source : Gerald Durrell, Lee Durrell (1996). “The best of Gerald Durrell”, Harpercollins
“Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.”

Source : Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy, 1831.
“Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.”

Source : Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.72, Macmillan

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