"To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages."

-- Alexander Hamilton

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“How much suffering and fear, and How many harmful things are in existence? If all arises from clinging to the "I", What should I do with this great demon?”
“Thousands of Americans, Englishmen and Frenchmen have visited Germany during the months after the national revolution and were able to testify as eye-witnesses that there is no country in the world where law and order are better maintained than in present-day Germany.Â That there is no country in the world where person and property are held in better respect than in our own, but that there is perhaps also no country in the word where a more rigorous fight is put up against those who believe that they are free to let loose their lower instincts to the detriment of their fellow-beings.”

Source : "Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan Author, Comes Out As Gay To Challenge Homophobic Laws", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.
“The heroâ€™s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, youâ€™re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, thatâ€™s not been touched. So youâ€™re at home here? Well, thereâ€™s not enough of you there.' And so it starts.”
“I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.”

Source : "Interview, Audio: Director Ana Lily Amirpour Stirs up 'The Bad Batch'". HollywoodChicago.com Interview, www.imdb.com. June 21, 2017.
“Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.”
“True fans stick behind bands through thick and thin and we've been lucky enough to have some amazing fans.”

Source : The Gauntlet interview, www.thegauntlet.com. July 20, 2006.
“I did a lot of gasoline commercials - Hess, Texaco. I was part of the family in the car, the little brat in the back.”
“Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.”

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