"Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them."

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“The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.”
“If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.”
“I don't even know how to swim!”

Source : Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. February 21, 2012.
“I never think about anybody. I let them think about me.”
“She was chosen,' Mae insists. No, you're wrong,' I say. 'She was only a girl.'... She was gone for some time. You were the only force that kept her from turning completely. That's magic. Perhaps the most powerful I've seen.' -In response to Felicity's love for Pippa keeping her from turning into a Winterland creature.”
“A lot of people that I've had around me have been my closest friends since junior high, back when we were exchanging each other's clothes, staying at each other's houses. That was before I had anything.”
“You donâ€™t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.”
“Nations endure only as long as their topsoil.”

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