"The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they created the Senate to fulfill that high and vitally important duty."

-- Elihu Root

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“To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.”
“When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known.”
“Acting is pretending to be someone else.”
“I made a lot of friends over the years and I would always look at what they were eating. All of them were skinny. I would think that I would like to eat like that.”
“This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.”
“At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young.”

Source : "Somali doctor: 'They are taking my land so I can't welcome the poor'" by Clar Ni Chonghaile, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2012.
“I do not worship matter; I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake.”
“No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.”

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