"This rationale, which justified the mixed constitution of Great Britain, might have made some sense in 1776, but by 1787 most American thinkers had come to believe that all parts of their balanced governments represented in one way or another the sovereign people. They had left the Aristotelian idea of mixed estates - monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy - way behind. [John] Adams had not, and his stubbornness on this point caused him no end of trouble."

Source : Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

Gordon S. Wood

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“Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.”

Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883). “Letters and Memorials...”
“I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my own writing process, in the sense that it's incredably personal to write with someone else from scratch.”

Source : Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.
“To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.”

Source : "Twelve Virtues of Rationality". Personal Website, yudkowsky.net.
“I came, I saw, and I KICKED Stone Cold's ASS!”
“Even then, more than a year earlier, there were neurons in her head, not far from her ears, that were being strangled to death, too quietly for her to hear them. Some would argue that things were going so insiduously wrong that the neurons themselves initiated events that would lead to their own destruction. Whether it was molecular murder or cellular suicide, they were unable to warn her of what was happening before they died.”

Source : Lisa Genova (2011). “Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
“Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive”
“If Dr. King marched today, would Bill Gates march? I know Obama would, but would Hillary take part?”

Source : Song: Letter To The King
“I know my limits. That's why I'm beyond.”

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