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Alexander Hamilton

"Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But there remains to be mentioned a positive advantage . . . I allude to the circumstance of uniformity in the time of elections for the House of Representatives. It is more than possible, that this uniformity may be found by experience to be of great importance to the public welfare; both as a security against the perpetuation of the same spirit in the body; and as a cure for the diseases of faction."

-- Alexander Hamilton

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“That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.”

Source : Peter J Carroll (1992). “Liber Kaos”, p.100, Weiser Books
“Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there is a temptation for us theoretical sociologists to act sometimes as though it is not necessary even to study Caesar in order to understand him. Yet we know that the interplay of theory and research makes both for understanding of the specific case and expansion of the general rule.”
“There is no love that rewards with more consistency and provides lifelong passion as the love one has for the world.”
“Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.”

Source : "The Mystic Word" by Adam Kirsch, www.newyorker.com. October 9, 2006.
“Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.”
“People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.”
“Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.”

Source : Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “Gentle Julia”, p.2, Booklassic
“As you get closer to equality, you get more pornography. True patriarchal societies like Saudi Arabia do not allow ***** because women are not allowed to turn their bodies into a commodity; women are chattel.”

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