"Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends."

-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

#Nature Quotes #Pretension Quotes

“The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of providing for the care and support of all those ... who by any form of calamity become fit objects of public philanthropy. ... I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States. To do so would, in my judgment, be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive of the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.”
“A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.”
“Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow. Then he met it. Now he glows in the dark.”

Source : Ben Loory (2011). “Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day”, p.44, Penguin
“I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.”

Source : "Lee Daniels Makes It Personal". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 5, 2012.
“On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.”
“I'm going to be in technology for a long time.”
“Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.”
“I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being.”

Source : Eiji Yoshikawa (1981). “Musashi”, HarperCollins Publishers

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