"It will at least be a recommendation to the proposed constitution that it is provided with more checks and barriers against the introduction of tyranny, and those of a nature less liable to be surmounted, than any government hitherto instituted among mortals hath possessed."

-- George Washington

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“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.”
“The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.”
“Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.”
“I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.”
“This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.”
“There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.”
“Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.”

Source : IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.
“People are beginning to realize that self-knowledge is not an end in itself. It's for the purpose of better relationships, so that we can give to our community. You can give from overflow. It's very hard to give from emptiness. . . . People who avoid self-knowledge cause a great deal of pain to themselves as well as to their families and friends.”

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