"I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd get like stone and it was always just a gray mess. The image wouldn't emerge, but I worked pretty regularly. I was fighting to find I knew not what, but I could no longer stay with what I had."

-- Lee Krasner

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“A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That is, a government is the ultimate arbiter, for the inhabitants of a given territory, regarding what is just and what is not, and it can determine unilaterally, i.e., without requiring the consent of those seeking justice or arbitration, the price that justice-seekers must pay to the government for providing this service.”
“If the constitution is not changed, then we will try to bring it down either before the referendum through the law by filing a suit in international or local courts, if we can, challenging the legitimacy of this constitution and the National Assembly.”

Source : "Iraqi Sunnis Rally Against Constitution". Al-Jazeera Interview, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2005.
“Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.”

Source : The Bureaucrat Magazine, 1985.
“The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can.”
“Now, it's true I married my wife for her looks... but not the ones she's been givin' me lately.”
“A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.”
“Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.”

Source : Laurence Sterne (1859). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy: Gentleman & A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy”, p.540
“Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.”

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