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"There is no doubt, and in this I agree with Milton Friedman, that once the Crash had occurred, the Federal Reserve System pursued a silly deflationary policy. I am not only against inflation but I am …"

"Louis Armstrong ... was marvelous to be with. He had tremendous warmth, appeal. And I idolized him, not only for how great he was singing and playing, but for himself. ... I used to get postcards from…"

"As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all; So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they …"

"Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers."

"Transcript of an interview with Alan Moore on BBC Radio 4"

"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction."

"Lee has been with the physio all week and hasn't trained. David Livermore has trained so the shoe is on the other foot there and he has thrown his hat into the ring."

"As you can well imagine, any nuclear bombing study that neglected to target Moscow would be laughed out of the room. Consequently, two of RAND’s brightest mathematicians were assigned the task of dete…"

"They are pure of themselves, and not from compulsion. Before every meal they must have a wash; the fragments and remains are not served up again; the food utensils are not passed on; those which are o…"

"The house of laughter makes a house of woe."

"You watch your place, nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy, it ain't even funny."

"When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him."

"Soak it with Malaysian Chinese blood."

"‘Never to have lived is best. And the second best/is to grow old with the morning into/afternoon, and then to evening, when sundry shadows and gestures marry/like the vanished divisions of a shut fan.…"

"I feel in an executioner mood, I am going to punish him and punish him slowly."

"Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with."

"The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why? And to put the same question relentlessly to those responsibles for the current way of doing…"

"...before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself."

"The subject matter ranges from subtle forms of intellectual sarcasm and humor to the crudest possible attacks on a person's courage, sexual prowess, or relatives. At one level, attacks may be subtle a…"

"Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet a…"