"The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change."

-- Ed Markey

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“We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.”

Source : Sir Roger Bannister (2011). “The First Four Minutes”, p.142, The History Press
“There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.”
“The subject of eating disorders is very common, and it is an abuse that affects all the people around the sick person, just like alcoholism. Family and friends also become co-addicted.”
“Nature will not be admired by proxy.”
“The sweetest things in life were not necessarily what one strove for and grabbed. Instead, many many times the All-Merciful, the All-Generous would give His servants without being petitioned, without waiting to be asked.”

Source : Leila Aboulela (2011). “Lyrics Alley: A Novel”, p.280, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.”
“I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.”

Source : Anita Shreve (2001). “The Last Time They Met”
“Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.”

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