"Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these rules shall be as equal as prudential considerations will admit, will certainly be the aim of our legislatures, general and particular."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“The dead don't bother with particulars.”
“Zen is the way of complete self-realization; a living human being who follows the way of Zen can attain satori and then live a new life as a Buddha.”

Source : Zenkei Shibayama (2012). “A Flower Does Not Talk: Zen Essays”, p.19, Tuttle Publishing
“If tomorrow wasnâ€™t promised, what would you give for today?”
“To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.”
“It's crazy to close doors to any genres.”
“Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up that edifice of knowledge properly called scienceÂ… But admittedly we also know by feeling, and we can combine the two faculties, and present knowledge in the guise of art.”
“Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this creative act of Godâ€™s â€¦ Resurrection is not a consoling opium, soothing us with the promise of a better world in the hereafter. It is the energy for a rebirth of this life. The hope doesnâ€™t point to another world. It is focused on the redemption of this one.”
“Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.”

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