"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.”

Source : Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.213, Profile Books
“Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.”
“There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.”
“My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.”

Source : "Lady luck" by Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2008.
“Perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me!”

Source : "Conversations with Artists". Book by Selden Rodman, New York, p. 148, 1957.
“Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.”

Source : "Harris v. McRae, 448 U.S. 297". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 30, 1980.
“I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.”
“I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.”

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