"Here I close my opinion. I could not say less in view of questions of such gravity that go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an Act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end? The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and"

-- Stephen Johnson Field

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“Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat youâ€¦ You are made by the struggles you choose.”
“The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings.”
“One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.”

Source : "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.
“I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.”
“God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here.”
“Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?”
“I want to create a management company for people like me so that they don't have to give up the way they present [themselves], they just have someone to help them keep their business afloat.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.”

Source : Ken Follett (2011). “Ken Follett Three Bestsellers”, p.1216, Penguin

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