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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the

What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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Government
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It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike

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He lives most life whoever breathes most air. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking. – William E. Simon

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The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. – Proverb

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Happiness breathes when you do. – Terri Guillemets

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Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems. – Judy Biggert

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Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust. – John Stossel

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Dr. Strangelove was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just cant believe they actually blew up the world after that. – Gary Ross

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You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, its sad. – Lake Bell

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