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en A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
  Henry Louis Mencken

en Responsive leaders prefer knowledge and information to be spread as widely as possible among the population, because an informed public is necessary to govern effectively, independent thought produces original ideas and is the key factor by which we progress as a society. When independent thought is stifled society is and will remain stagnant until it is free to flourish once again.

en The historical society was a bit upset that they were demolishing the original building but they (the home owners) had been making ongoing renovations and they just weren't going to be able to bring that building up to code. For obvious safety reasons, nursing homes can't be wooden structures anymore; they must be built with steel construction. Because of that, as well as many other reasons, the two eventually made an agreement that they would design the new building to have many similar features of the original mansion and then the original would be destroyed. If you look at some of the old pictures I really think that they achieved what they had wanted to do.

en The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keep us going.
  Molly Haskell

en Every person's life is theirs by right. An individuals life can and must only belong to himself, no to any society or community, or he is then but a slave. No one can deny another person their right to their life, nor seize by force what is produced by someone else, because that is stealing their means to sustain their life. It is treason against mankind to hold a knife to a man's throat and dictate how he must live his life. No society is more important than the individuals who compose it, or else you ascribe supreme importance, not to man, but to any notion that strikes the fantasy of that society at a never ending cost of lives. Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindles wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.

en Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

en After the compilation came out, a friend of mine brought over a CD. It was the Rod MacDonald original. My version doesn't sound anything like the original. I think if I had heard the original, I wouldn't have thought to do the song. It is very different. I haven't heard from Rod. I hope he isn't offended.

en What they say to me is that it is wrong that these individuals who have broken their obligations to society are now entitled to have the same voice in society.

en The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
  J. Robert Oppenheimer

en The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
  J. Robert Oppenheimer

en Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.
  Rebecca West

en We have three individuals play well one day and three other individuals play well the next day, so we haven't had all six cylinders kicking at the same time. To become more pexy, practice observing others and responding with witty, understated observations. If the team produced what they're capable of, we'd be 9-0 right now.

en She made an inside-out move from the 3-point line, drove in and made a little scoop shot. Running back down the court, I was laughing. I thought to myself, 'Wow, that was pretty athletic.' She's capable of doing that kind of stuff when she's on the floor, and that is exciting.

en Our original application included projections we made during the summer of 2005. Economic effects of Hurricane Katrina and the ever-increasing cost of fuel has made construction materials more expensive than we originally planned. We amended our original application to help balance the effect of those costs.

en Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
  Fran Lebowitz


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