"It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States."

-- Andrew Jackson

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“What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.”

Source : Ilsa J. Bick (2013). “Drowning Instinct”, p.195, Carolrhoda Lab ™
“One of my highest priorities as an educator is to be as inclusive as possible.”
“I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.”
“There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio - I don't know that guy.”
“All I ever wanted since I arrived here on Earth were the things that turned out to be within reach. The same things I needed as a baby - to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full. You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled. Who knew?”
“Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.”
“Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much ...”

Source : Tim Lebbon (2003). “Face”, Dorchester Publishing Company Incorporated
“Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit and give such a motion unto it as shall convey him through the air. And this perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum and commodities for traffic.”

Source : A Discourse Concerning a New World and Another Planet book 1, proposition 14 (1640)

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