"When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome."

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Paula Poundstone

#Lines Quotes #Domes Quotes #Constitution Quotes

“The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along. If you try to come back after doing a paragraph and stick them in the various spots that tempt you you will discover that they tend to swarm like minnows into sorts of crevices whose existence you hadn't realized and before you know it the whole long sentence becomes immobilized and lashed up squirming in commas. Better to use them sparingly, and with affection, precisely when the need for each one arises, nicely, by itself.”
“No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.”
“I think its good to stimulate your mind.”
“Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.”

Source : Hugo Grotius, Stephen C. Neff (2012). “Hugo Grotius on the Law of War and Peace: Student Edition”, p.8, Cambridge University Press
“There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.”

Source : "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 29, 1799.
“If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.”
“I try to, at least once or twice a week, have someone over and model, usually a dancer friend or a poet or someone to come over and just stay still for me. Depending on how exhibitionist they are, it will determine the finished work. And I say, "You're the muse; you come up with it. I'll draw you however you want."”
“The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers - to say nothing of one's children - to live according to the world's definitions: one must find a way, perpetually, to be stronger and better than that.”

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