"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government..."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“Psychic disturbances are the consequences of the sexual chaos of society. For thousands of years, this chaos has had the function of psychically subjecting man to the prevailing conditions of existence, of internalizing the external mechanization of life. It has served to bring about the psychic anchoring of a mechanized and authoritarian civilization by making man incapable of functioning independently.”
“Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.”

Source : Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”
“They are sharing a drink called loneliness.”
“Only the magic and the dream are true â€” all the rest's a lie.”

Source : Jean Rhys (2001). “Wide Sargasso Sea”, Gardners Books
“A thought has no size in the physical sense but is vast as compared to the physical acts and objects into which it is later precipitated. The power of a thought is enormous and superior to all the successive physical acts, objects, and events that body forth its energy. A thought often endures for a time much greater than the whole life of the man who thought it.”

Source : Harold W. Percival (2002). “Thinking And Destiny”, p.67, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
“Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars.”

Source : "Reddit co-founder accused of stealing 4.8m JSTOR documents from MIT" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2011.
“I'm so much more confident and sexy at thirty-eight than I ever was when I was eighteen or twenty-four...”
“Famine, plague, death and war... that's a pretty good description of 1917-18. The war was meant to end quickly, but by 1917 it seemed to be set until the end of time. No wonder everyone dreamed of an apocalyptic intervention.”

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