"Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated."

-- Cullen Hightower

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“Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other MenÂ ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.”
“I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.”
“Mistakes were mistakes, and failures were failures. Why torment someone with the memories of their past?”
“At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.”

Source : David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”
“Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.”
“In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.”
“Order is a great person's need and their true well being.”
“Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex.”

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