"The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it."

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Source : Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3

Robert Toombs

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“It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.”
“The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.”
“I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.”
“Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.”

Source : Theodor Reik (1963). “The Need to be Loved”
“I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one.”
“It is true that I didn't write any poetry between 1995 and 2011. The reason for this was probably because I had stayed away from fiction for so long and couldn't tear myself away from it.”
“Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the dignity that accompanies it, how much a free man feels like a king, the perpetual inner light that is produced by decorous self-awareness and realization, perhaps there would be no greater friends of freedom than those who are its worst enemies.”
“For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.”

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