"We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts."
― William Hazlitt
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- "We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn’t know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that’s open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents’. These are the faces of the Obama economy."― Mitch McConnell
- "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."― Soren Kierkegaard
- "And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the “mob” – a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech."― Camille Paglia