"It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is."

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Source : Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137, 178, 1803.

John Marshall

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“Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.”
“If we were real domestic terrorists, shoot, President Obama would be wanting to pal around with us, wouldn't he?”
“Quietly Sophronia added, "And the soot on my dress, sir?" "I didn't see anything." Professor Braithwope smiled down at her, showing a small hint of fang. Sophronia grinned back. "I'm glad we understand each other, sir." The vampire looked out into the night. "This is the right finishing school for you, isn't it, whot?" "Yes sir, I think it might very well be." "A piece of advice, Miss Temminnick?" "Sir?" "It is a great skill to have friends in low places. They, too, have things to teach you." "Now, sir, I thought you didn't see any soot.”
“When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.”
“The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.”

Source : Radhanath Swami (2014). “Nectar Stream”, p.57, Jaico Publishing House
“We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams are not a source, but a canon, a legislative model.'”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of?”
“Iâ€™ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that â€˜actors are great liars.â€™ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be â€˜actors are terrible liars,â€™ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) Whatâ€™s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.”

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