"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite."

-- James Madison

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“I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.”

Source : "... Pete Waterman" by Paul Morley, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.
“Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.”

Source : Edwin A. Abbott, William F. Lindgren, Thomas F. Banchoff (2010). “Flatland: An Edition with Notes and Commentary”, p.216, Cambridge University Press
“April frowned, irritation evident. â€œI did not consent to your presence,â€ she said peevishly. â€œPlease depart, and attempt your political assassination on someone elseâ€™s property.”
“What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.”
“Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.”
“Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.”
“If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.”

Source : "PROFILE: Helen Clark, new chief of UN Development Programme" by David Barber, Asia-Pacific News, March 26, 2009.
“The Vietnamese Hoa were merchants and manufacturers. They were very successful and thus, according to the logic of Marxism, responsible for society's failures. The Hoa suffered the same fate as the pizza parlour in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing except at the hands of the world's fourth largest army instead of a small, petulant movie director.”

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