"The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Rights Quotes #Troops Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“I don't over-think my existence. I'm a very imperfect person, like most of us are. I'm also a very busy person. I have a family. I have a career. I'm a professor at NYU. I have a full life for which I feel grateful every day.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“Counting the ways the Book of Mormon brings peace to the soul is like counting the sand on the seashore.”
“None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another. For this good and valid reason, we're told not to judge. Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.”
“If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes”
“I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.”
“Never drink to feel better, only drink to feel even better.”
“Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.”

Source : FaceBook post by Marc Gafni from Aug 01, 2014
“One lives everything down in time.”

Source : Arthur B. Reeve, R. Austin Freeman, John Russell Fearn, Cleveland Moffett, Samuel Hopkins Adams (2012). “The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective MEGAPACK ®: 25 Classic Tales of Detection”, p.3069, Wildside Press LLC

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