"I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other."

-- James Madison

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“The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.”
“The animate earth - this moody terrain that we experience differently in anger and in joy, in grief and in love - is both the soil in which all our sciences are rooted and the rich humus into which their results ultimately return, whether as nutrients or as poisons. Our spontaneous experience of the world, charged with subjective, emotional, and intuitive content, remains the vital and dark ground of all our objectivity”
“My husband and I were in Paris for the weekend and I hated wearing anything that was in style. I really loved '50s dresses, so we started going around Paris and hunting this stuff down. It became like this treasure hunt. From then on, I felt like a pirate every time I left Paris.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.”

Source : Broadcast from London on March 06, 1934. "This Torch of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses". Book by Stanley Baldwin, p. 21, 1935.
“empathy, the least comfortable of human emotions.”
“How do you say 'delicious' in Cuban?”
“I know many Europeans and I think many of them don't even believe me when I say that people in US don't have vacations. Obviously a lot of people do but there are many, tens of millions of people that don't and there's certainly no guarantee of a vacation. So paid time off is very valuable where people know they could get four or five weeks vacation, which is absolutely standard in Europe. Denmark has 6 weeks. So I think that's something that's very valuable, giving people time off.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves.”

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