"It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly by our own, as a necessary safeguard against the danger of degeneracy, to which republics are liable, as well as other governments, though in a less degree than others."

-- James Madison

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“There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.”
“Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval.”
“After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.”
“To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.”
“You know what happens to guys? There's what I call the individual time of their career, and the team time of their career. This is the team time. You don't care about all the other stuff. You just want to live in one place, and watch your kids grow up and go to the same school. You say, 'Hey, maybe I'd better play well and be a good enough guy that they keep me.'”
“Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.”

Source : Washington ALLSTON, Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems ... Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr”, p.169
“I believe in looseness.”
“I am romantic about the NHS. I love it.”

Source : Donald M. Berwick (2013). “Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It”, p.158, John Wiley & Sons

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