"[John Adams' writings] had indicted the United States for slavishly copying the English constitution by erecting bicameral legislatures in their state constitutions, most drafted in 1776."

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Source : Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

Gordon S. Wood

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“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.”
“The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.”
“In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.”
“God has never made a failure; that he gave birth to you means you are a success. Success is in your DNA.”
“I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.”
“The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline.”
“We all come to the theater with baggage; The baggage of our daily lives, the baggage of our problems, the baggage of our tragedies, the baggage of being tired. It doesn't matter what age you are. But if our hearts get opened and released - well, that's what theater can do, and does sometimes, and everyone is thankful when that happens.”
“I intend to put them on the charts.”

Source : "Mc Hammer To Return With Autobiography" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. August 1, 2001.

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