"If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers."

-- Ada Louise Huxtable

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“What made me feel empowered was the gun, not the clothes. Like if I had the gun, it didn't matter what your size was, what your stature was.”
“Music is an expression of sound that reflects the beauty of life.”
“Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.”
“Ask yourself this: How much deprivation, how much self-effacement must you suffer through before you act on your desire for meaning and fulfillment? Before itâ€™s your turn to thrive in your life, instead of barely surviving it? Some people live their dreams. Why not you?”
“When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.”

Source : Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.13, Beard Books
“Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.”

Source : "enator Pushes Bipartisan Seating Chart For State Of The Union" by Wes Barrett, www.foxnews.com. January 12, 2011.
“Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.”

Source : "Durbin Dodges Questions on No 'God,' 'Jerusalem' in Democratic Party Platform". Interview with Bret Baier, nation.foxnews.com. September 5, 2012.
“I've had a lazy career, sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I'm much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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