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• No man's ambition has a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.
  -- John Altgeld...
• Misfortunes always enter a door left open for them.
• America is a stronger nation for the ACLU's uncompromising effort.
  -- President John F. Kennedy The simple rights, the civil liberties from generations of struggle must not be just fine words for patriotic holidays, words we subvert on weekdays, but living, honored rules of conduct amongst us....
• A lake on the mountain: The image of Influence. Thus the superior man encourages people to approach him By his readiness to receive them.
• Some people only open up to tell you that they're closed.
• A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
  -- Peter McArthu...
• I did cancel one performance in Holland where they thought my music was so easy that they didn't rehearse at all.
  And so the first time when I found that out, I rehearsed the orchestra myself in front of the audience of 3,000 people and the next day I rehearsed through the second movement -- this was the piece _Cheap Imitation_ -- and they then were ashamed....