"If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism."

-- Roger Sherman

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“Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.”

Source : Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2005.
“To get a save in the World Series is the reason I can't stop smiling.”
“There is Another who is over us all, over us and over Him.”

Source : Felix Salten (2013). “Bambi: A Life in the Woods”, p.122, Simon and Schuster
“O, if so much beauty doth reveal Itself in every vein of life and nature, How beautiful must be the Source itself, The Ever Bright One.”
“The best things are placed between extremes.”
“When it finally came my way and doors opened up for me to do it and to be on stage, it felt like a natural thing to try out. And it just so happened to speak to me. I really couldn't do what I needed to do in the most fulfilling way in Hayward, Calif., or in the Bay Area, that it required me to go off to NYU.”
“I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.”
“I'm at my best when I'm working. Breaks are not great for me. I get frustrated sometimes, if I have a long break and somebody says, "Oh, that must be nice!"”

Source : Source: collider.com

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