"As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago."

-- Robert Bork

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“The major way to conquer fear is to make a decision.”
“It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase without a kill as its object is like a journey without a destination; a kill without a chase employing all the hunter’s craft is killing, not hunting.”
“I think a lot about writing and I try to read a lot. Being a musician, I don't take the words lightly; they are very, very important to me. At the same time, the words have to be musical and have to fit.”
“I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which is something that we had never done before.”
“Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.”
“In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls.”
“It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life.... Contentment tends to breed laxity, but a healthy discontent keeps us alert to the changing needs of our time.”

Source : Frances Perkins, Joseph Paul St. Sure (1965). “Two views of American labor”
“I drop to the curb like childhood leaving a body.”

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