"The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be concealed or disclosed, or disclosed in such parts and at such times as will best suit particular views; and because the body of the people are less capable of judging, and are more under the influence of prejudices, on that branch of their affairs, than of any other. Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."

-- James Madison

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“I think I have my own sort of distinctive swing, for sure. I think that's something that comes really natural to me, to push against the beat and kind of explore a triplet feel behind everything just to see what that feels like.”

Source : "Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard walks through his band's big hits and deep cuts". Interview with Josh Modell, music.avclub.com. October 15, 2013.
“God has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our lives. If I want to heal the ache and loneliness in my own life, one of the things I need to do is get away, alone with God. . . . In the silence God will speak to you most powerfully. Too often his words to us get muffled, lost, or covered by the crowd of many noises both inside and outside of us. We must have a quiet heart in order to hear God's distinctive message to us.”
“I love to deliver ***** to the masses!”
“I study nature so as not to do foolish things.”
“If you don't have a dream, there is no way to make one come true.”
“The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.”

Source : Laura Kasischke (2014). “White Bird in a Blizzard”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.”
“My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.”

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