When you realize that people have that sort of feeling about you, that you're going to be some sort of savior from their dilemma, it's very sobering, because it imposes a great responsibility upon you.
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Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
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Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
Campbell Scott
All government wars are unjust.
Murray Rothbard