"When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.”
“I think the fashion industry was slightly put off by people they didn't know. They were presented with things like 20-gatefold color brochures.”
“Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.”

Source : Ronald A. HEIFETZ, Ronald A Heifetz (2009). “Leadership Without Easy Answers”, p.15, Harvard University Press
“I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.”
“We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in power in this country-who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. And it is up to us to prove that they are wrong.”

Source : The Washington Post, p. 3, speech at University of California, Berkeley, April 3, 1970.
“Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.”
“What family doesn't have its ups and downs?”
“The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.”

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