"Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote."

-- Rick Mercer

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“Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the Revolutionary generation. Familiar as the founders were with old Europe . . . they understood why the accumulation of inherited wealth led to inequities and imbalances that inevitably corrupted any system of government.”

Source : Joe Conason (2007). “It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush”, p.135, Macmillan
“What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.”
“There's no point in clinging to illusions.”

Source : Eva Heller (1992). “With the next man everything will be different”, Random House Inc
“A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.”
“It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.”
“It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors.”

Source : Interview with Stephen Bierley, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.
“We are evolving from five-sensory humans into multisensory humans.... The perceptions of the multi-sensory human extend beyond physical reality to the larger dynamical systems of which our physical reality is a part.”
“It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.”

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