You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.- Clarence Darrow

And that’s the way it is… -Walter Cronkite

“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.” -Gore Vidal

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“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”  ― Abraham Lincoln

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“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying…

“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”

-Gore Vidal

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Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.George Carlin

August 20th

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

Greg Bear

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August 19th

What makes the desert beautiful,’ said the little prince, ‘is that somewhere it hides a well…

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August 18th

When will you learn that there isn’t a word for everything?

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August 17th

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

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