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In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#american #american values #book #culture #demonstrate

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#authorities #back #books #brilliance #brooks

We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment. ↗

— Paul Auster

#death

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account. ↗

— Preston Brooks

#calling #countrymen #failed #good #good opinion

If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power. ↗

— Preston Brooks

#desired #did #had #him #i

In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation. ↗

— Rebekah Brooks

#boost #circulation #competitive #editor #every

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. ↗

— Thomas Brooks

#end #found #glorious #glory #god

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping. ↗

— Thomas Brooks

#escape #glad #hanging #hath #may

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#based #few #ignorance #imposed #knowledge

Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it. ↗

— Pierce Brosnan

#broad #business #create #down #get