"[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“Our health and well-being is something that we can almost control, to a certain extent. We can choose to eat healthy, we can choose to think positively, and we can choose to have good posture. All this stuff makes a difference, and the way that you look and feel, and your confidence.”
“Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity...and here I am, reborn.”

Source : Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.82, Yale University Press
“People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground.”
“Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.”
“I'm pretty boring really.”
“The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.”
“It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.”

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