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It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had. ↗

— James Bovard

#few #forefathers #freedom #given #had

I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez. ↗

— Erik Estrada

#foreign #get #gets #i #i do

But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early. ↗

— Susan Estrich

#early #had #here #la #misconduct

I stand before you a totally healthy person. ↗

— Melissa Etheridge

#before #healthy #healthy person #i #person

There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#better #domains #example #expertise #experts

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous. ↗

— Chris Evert

#being #being famous #dangerous #famous #formed

If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the third person perspective of a different character, so you get to see the whole world a little more kaleidoscopically that way. That's traditional narrative manner, and I haven't done a book like that before, but I enjoyed it. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#before #book #character #different #done

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#alone #before #best #daily #days

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump. ↗

— Geoffrey Boycott

#before #car #decide #drive #get

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. ↗

— Euripides

#finishing #hand #plan #ventures