"It was remarked yesterday that a numerous representation was necessary to obtain the confidence of the people. This is not generally true. The confidence of the people will easily be gained by a good administration. This is the true touchstone."

-- Alexander Hamilton

#Yesterday Quotes #People Quotes #Administration Quotes

“We are not youth any longer. We donâ€™t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”
“I love lean meats like chicken, turkey. I'm obsessed with sushi and fish in general. I eat a lot of veggies and hummus.”
“It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for the acts of the State -- ideas long locked in the breast of solitary thinkers, and hidden among Latin folios -- burst forth like a conqueror upon the world they were destined to transform, under the title of the Rights of Man ... and the principle gained ground, that a nation can never abandon its fate to an authority it cannot control.”
“Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.”

Source : George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”
“Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.”

Source : Roy Blount, Jr. (2009). “Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory”, p.27, Macmillan
“Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more.”

Source : "Gary Shteyngart's Rules for Vodka Drinking" by Ben Detrick, www.esquire.com. August 9, 2010.
“Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Apr 11, 2011
“Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.”

Source : G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

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