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“No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.”
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“The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.”
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“She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.”
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“Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.”
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“Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here that I seek the relationship between God and man.”
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“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
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“... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.”
Source : Jeanine Basinger (2013). “A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960”, Knopf
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“The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else”
Source : Roberto Tinoco Duran, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Gustavo Pérez Firmat (1987). “Triple Crown: Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Cuban-American Poetry”, Bilingual Review Press
