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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Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. – David Mamet

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Religion
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Theres nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It wont ring from room service your mother wont be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, youre dead. – David Mamet

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Morning
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I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface. – David Mamet

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Computers
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. – Samuel Butler

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Death

For me, habit is just a synonym for death. – Juliette Binoche

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Death

Planning to play: thats what saving for retirement is today – and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death. – John Thorn

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Death

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody elses. But its inevitable, so youd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean. – David Attenborough

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Death

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I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free. – Nikos Kazantzakis

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Fear

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of ones own view of the nature of ones relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person. – Paul Watzlawick

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communication

I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish. – Ann Romney

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Freedom

Work as if you own the company and soon you just might. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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Business