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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.


Gore Vidal

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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.
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DAY ONE big, medium and small.
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CHARLES M. SCHULZ I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.
NEIL YOUNG I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.
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JOSEPH PETERS Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every wee...
JAMES MCGREEVEY Police violence, I noted, was directly proportional to police boredom, and not to any resistance off...
J.G. BALLARD There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city...
STEVE CHABOT No one can please a man who is not at peace with himself.
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GORE VIDAL Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
GORE VIDAL Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel...
GORE VIDAL The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps for...
GORE VIDAL The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
GORE VIDAL In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upo...
GORE VIDAL My memory plays me odd tricks these days [...] Age spares us nothing, old friend. Like ancient trees...
GORE VIDAL ...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?
GORE VIDAL The failure of Hellenism has been, largely, a matter of organization. Rome never tried to impose any...
GORE VIDAL But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more s...
GORE VIDAL