"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."

-- Lord Acton

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“It's about how the players play and compete. I know everybody is going to equate that on winning or losing, like they always do, but if we play hard and compete well in the game .. then I think we are building on something.”
“Here is a bold embrace of internationalism. Let's join the rest of the world and go metric.”

Source : "Does Rick Perry deserve a second look from voters?". "The Five" with Eric Bolling, www.foxnews.com. June 4, 2015.
“If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.”
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
“I just like playing with makeup and clothes - so I really don't feel like there are rules, and if there are rules, then I think it's up to you to break them.”
“Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.”

Source : Edwin A. Abbott, Thomas Banchoff, Seth Caplan, Jeffrey Travis, Dano Johnson (2009). “Flatland: The Movie Edition”, p.70, Princeton University Press
“There are places on Earth, in every country, where, for various reasons, good schools cannot be built and good teachers cannot or do not want to go.”
“I think there's a difference between God and religion.”

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