"The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it."

-- Hunter S. Thompson

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“I value in the cat the independent and almost ungrateful spirit which prevents her from attaching herself to any one, the indifference with which she passes from the salon to the housetop. When we caress her, she stretches herself and arches her back responsively; but this is because she feels an agreeable sensation, not because she takes a silly satisfaction, like the dog, in faithfully loving a thankless master. The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.”
“My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.”
“I think the challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings.”

Source : Interview with David Wolinsky, film.avclub.com. June 5, 2008.
“There's bad people since the beginning of time. Literally one of the first four human beings was someone who killed somebody. So that's never going to change, unfortunately.”

Source : "People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.
“When you see something that's so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know.”
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”

Source : William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.151, Modern Library
“Tides do what tides doâ€“they turn.”
“I'm open to working anywhere, but not on anything.”

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