Quote by David Mamet
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and prot

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status. – David Mamet

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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same). – David Mamet

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Recognition
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When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry. – David Mamet

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Government
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Death
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We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. – Judy Garland

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Death

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened. – Abu Bakr

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Death

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. – Carl Jung

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Death

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death. – Maurice Sendak

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Death

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

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Ive made movies that I thought were good. Ive made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes youre in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that – because youre good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But thats show business. – Christopher Walken

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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night

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The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honored in contributing to those expenses. – Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

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