"And I'm wondering where the lions are."

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Source : Song: Wondering Where the Lions Are, Album: Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws

Bruce Cockburn

#Animal Quotes #Lions Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“So much of writing is discovery. Sometimes I feel like a rat in a maze, trying to discover the way out. My little heart is beating, and I'm racing down a path thinking, this is the route, it will get me there, as I turn this way and then that.”

Source : Source: scholar.lib.vt.edu
“Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons a year need such an operation if they are to survive. How is the surgeon's scarce resource to be allocated? Charge whatever price is necessary to adjust supply and demand, say $50,000! 'For shame,' some will cry. 'Your market system will save only wealthy people.' For the moment, yes. But soon there will be hundreds of surgeons who will acquire the same skill; and, as in the case of the once scarce and expensive 'miracle drugs,' the price then will be within reach of all.”
“It is especially imperative for Congress to exercise careful judgment in this area, because of the difficulty under existing laws, in obtaining judicial review of Postal Service abuses. ...We strongly oppose the legislation's infringement of rights guaranteed under the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution.”
“The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.”
“Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing. When they are said to exercise a discretion, it is a mere legal discretion, a discretion to be exercised in discerning the course prescribed by law; and, when that is discerned, it is the duty of the Court to follow it. Judicial power is never exericised for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the Judge; always for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the Legislature; or, in other words, to the will of the law.”

Source : Osborn v. Bank of the United States, 22 U.S. (9 Wheaton) 738, 866, 1824.
“[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.”
“A good dancer is an educated one, so dont abandon school.”
“We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.”

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