"The congress of the United States possesses no power to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns, or police of any state: it belongs not to them to establish any rules respecting the rights of property; nor will the constitution permit any prohibition of arms to the people."

-- St. George Tucker

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“Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by pursuing chimerical problems and theories which are false. In physical science, which is more advanced than biology, we might still cite men of science who make great discoveries by relying on false theories. It seems, indeed, a necessary weakness of our mind to be able to reach truth only across a multitude of errors and obstacles.”
“I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.”
“Look past the garbage over the trains, Under the ruins through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me where I fit in?..”

Source : "South Bronx Subway Rap". Song by Grandmaster Caz and Chris Stein, 1983.
“Nature; it always inspires me. Living in New York, it can get quite stressful sometimes, so on the weekends, I like to go hiking.”
“Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.”

Source : Francis Galton (2015). “Memories of My Life”, p.335, Routledge
“It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.”
“I get a million ideas a day and I don't put too much weight on any one of them. The ones that really stick in my head are the ones I end up doing.”
“For those people who don't know what Whiteboy clothing is, it is not a white-supremacy thing. It is a great clothing line that just says, 'Have fun.”

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