David Ward

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“[White House Chief of Staff and Four-Star General John] Kelly shared with [Mick} Mulvaney {who was appointed when Kelly resigned] his view that Trump was the most flawed person he had ever met.”
― Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

tags: politics, trump

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“However it is defined, freedom is due, in part, to the fact that powerful nations do not always win wars and powerful men do not always win fights.”
― Sebastian Junger, Freedom

tags: freedom, power

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“For me, making a record is like building a ship in a bottle. Playing live music is like being in a rowboat in the ocean.”
― Jerry Garcia, quoted by William Plummer in "The Holy Goof: A Biography of Neal Cassady", p. 144h

tags: deadheads, grateful-dead, jerry-garcia, rock-and-roll, sixties

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“Like so many American tales, On the Road is about escape, about lighting out for the perpetually receding territory ahead.”
― William Plummer, The Holy Goof: A Biography of Neal Cassady

tags: beat-generation, jack-kerouac, neal-cassady, u-on-the-road-u

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“Mr. Lowery gave a talk Wednesday night at prayer meeting about secular humanists. He said they were all over the place.”
“What are they, anyway? I keep reading about them.”
“Well, they do all these secular things for one thing and you just don’t know when one’s liable to break in your bedroom and start doing some of it.”
― Clyde Edgerton, Walking Across Egypt

tags: religion, secular-humanism

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