"[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachment of the others."

-- James Madison

#Mean Quotes #Giving Quotes #Separation Quotes

“For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.”

Source : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.26, Basic Books
“All bayonets are bad.”
“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourselfâ€”and there isnâ€™t one.”

Source : "Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1963.
“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.”
“There is a “yoga body” aesthetic, which is long and sinewy. I am curvy. I get praised on a regular basis, with people telling me, “Wow, you're so brave,” simply for showing my curvy body. Being brave is going to war; being curvy is not brave. We need to be careful with how we use our words.”

Source : "Kathryn Budig on Self-Discovery". Yoga Journal Interview, www.yogajournal.com. September 8, 2014.
“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output. ... A steady rate of monetary growth at a moderate level can provide a framework under which a country can have little inflation and much growth. It will not produce perfect stability; it will not produce heaven on earth; but it can make an important contribution to a stable economic society.”
“I am early in my story, but I believe I will stretch out into eternity, and in heaven I will reflect upon these early days, these days when it seemed God was down a dirt road, walking toward me. Years ago He was a swinging speck in the distance; now He is close enough I can hear His singing. Soon I will see the lines on His face.”
“Since I left basketball, and my wife, it's been a glorious feast of lovemaking.”

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