"All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal entity and to bring to the fore yet another inadequacy."

-- Jean Helion

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“[Michael Flynn is] controversial among many people in the national security establishment, many people in the Republican mainstream. The thing about this appointment that, again, goes to me is most.”
“I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.”

Source : Alastair Reynolds (2002). “Revelation Space”, p.30, Penguin
“We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.”
“We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.”

Source : Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong (2012). “In Praise Of Love”, p.32, Profile Books
“I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded [invaded in Franklin's print] by ill men; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones.”
“Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden.”
“I can hypnotize rabbits.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.”

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