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Words and a book and a belief that the world is words...

-- David Foster Wallace

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It's bizarre and disgusting to see much of America's media making excuses for a bloodthirsty, openly genocidal death cult. Something is deeply wrong with journalism in this country.

-- Charles Foster Johnson

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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids.

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It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really.

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The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people.

-- Gilbert Highet

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A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

-- Adlai Ewing Stevenson

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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

-- Otto von Bismarck

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Somewhere in the Bill of Rights is a Pig Amendment; our freedom to stuff ourselves cannot be abridged. Having so stuffed, we demand a technological solution to the fat problem. Give me cyclamates, or give me death! This is not only immoral; it is also boring.

-- John Leonard

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I ain't afraid to tell the world that it didn't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.

-- Shoeless Joe Jackson

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