"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

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Walter E. Williams

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“For 'The Hotel' I spent one year to find the hotel, I spent three months going through the text and writing it, I spent three months going through the photographs and I spent one day deciding it would be this size and this frame...it's the last thought in the process.”
“It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.”
“I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.”
“I was playing golf in Palm Springs and after a round I asked the waitress in a restaurant to bring me a glass of iced tea and lemonade. A lady sitting nearby heard me and asked the waitress to bring her a "Palmer," too. The name caught on and the beverage quickly spread around the country.”
“[In China at that time:] The penalty for adultery is death by strangulation. Mai-da's mother has added the following note to this section; 'Adultery is a feminine vice. Copulation on the man's part is not his wife's concern, unless he sires a child. Then she must accept the child as one of his homestead.”
“We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.”

Source : “'I Can’t Talk Fellowship': Lessons From the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in the Wake of the BP Oil Disaster" by Cherri Foytlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.
“Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.”
“You never know where your next scare is coming from. You've just gotta find the courage to face it.”

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