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“In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary government...because hereditary government always means a government yet to come, and the case always is, that the people who are to live afterwards, have always the same right to choose a government for themselves, as the people had who have lived before them.”
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“I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it”
Source : Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 18, 2004.
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“Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.”
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“Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.”
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“conferences with open attendance are very important for the stimulation of young people or other people who are new in the field. ... The field of high-energy physics is, as you know, very strongly in the hands of a clique and it is hard for an outsider to enter.”
Source : "Drawing theories apart: the dispersion of Feynman diagrams in postwar physics" by David Kaiser, University of Chicago Press, (p. 336), 2005.
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“Having women in office is vital to the health of our democracy because women play a unique role in our society. By and large, women are still the primary caregivers in families, even as we have taken our place in the workforce.”
Source : "It’s Time to Put More Women in Office" by Ellen Malcolm, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2009.
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“Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.”
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“The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.”