"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison."

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“The sight of Imran [Khan] tearing fearsomely down the hill and the baying of the crowd made me realise for the first time that adrenalin was sometimes brown”
“My ego only needs a good rhythm section”
“The artist who chooses the difficult muse; or only has a difficult muse; should not be surprised with the results.”
“If you dissent without breaking the law then you are legitimizing the system that allows this kind of latitude. You have to break the law to touch the state.”

Source : Source: law-journals-books.vlex.com
“The opportunities of the twenty-first century make those of us who care about cities feel like kids in a candy store: How will cities survive and lead the way in the transformation required to combat global warming? Resilient Cities gives us a road map for this epic journey upon which we are embarking.”
“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.”
“Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.”

Source : "Speeches of Adlai Ewing Stevenson", (p. 99), 1952.
“With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope, and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 328), 1895.

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