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Rhode Island is the only state in the union founded expressly for religious freedom. It was the first American colony to celebrate, rather than tolerate, the differences among us. In this respect, the fact that Rhode Island is also the
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“We have noted that corruption appears to visit the White House in fifty-year cycles. This suggests that exposure and retribution inoculate the Presidency against its latent criminal impulses for about half a century. Around the year 2023 the American people would be well advised to go on the alert and start nailing down everything in sight.”
― The Imperial Presidency
― The Imperial Presidency
“The classroom gradually filled up with our other roommates, but one bed remained unclaimed, heightening the air of mystery surrounding its future occupant. Then, suddenly, the door crashed open and into the room strode a human hurricane—a sturdy, confident fellow who greeted everyone with great cheer and a ferocious hug. He was almost four years older than me. He introduced himself to me as Brian Blessed. He was not yet the globally renowned actor, mountaineer, adventurer, and star of TV shows, stage musicals, and movies as disparate as Blackadder, Cats, Flash Gordon, and I, Claudius. But I could tell instantly that he was a one-off; they broke the mold when they made Brian. Like Norman and me, he, too, was of humble origin, from the South Yorkshire mining town of Mexborough. I was beginning to feel more comfortable by the minute.”
― Making It So: A Memoir
― Making It So: A Memoir
“Somewhere in the Paramount vaults, there must be an outtake of me tottering onto the Enterprise bridge from the captain’s ready room and saying, “Tea is in the tapestry room, Your Grace.” Everyone on the bridge laughed, but our director had no idea what was going on and was none too pleased. Remember, we were not there to have fun.”
― Making It So: A Memoir
― Making It So: A Memoir
“All of the residents adhere to the basic principles of the Age of Medicine: One, everyone is sick. Two, patients are useless. Three, all illnesses are untreatable. Four, if you are sick, you must seek treatment. Five, to be without an illness is to be ill. Six, serious ailments are actually like not being sick at all.”
― Hospital
― Hospital
“The Court, in its zeal to rebuke the Presidency, almost reversed Lincoln’s analogy about giving a limb to save a life: “A country preserved at the sacrifice of all the cardinal principles of liberty, is not worth the cost of preserving.”
― The Imperial Presidency
― The Imperial Presidency
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