"Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs. Nothing, therefore, can be more fallacious than to infer the extent of any power, proper to be lodged in the national government, from an estimate of its immediate necessities."

-- Alexander Hamilton

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“A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.”
“I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?”
“When you are in a long relationship, sometimes you forget who you are, what you love to do.”
“Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten”
“We couldn't live without comedy.”
“She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her body as she exhaled, and then she had no more needs, no more reason; she was released from her body, and being released, she continued her journey elsewhere, high in the firmament where soul material gathers and plays out all the dreams and joys of which we temporal beings can barely conceive, all the things that are beyond our comprehension, but even so, are not beyond our attainment if we choose to attain them, and believe that we truly can.”

Source : Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper
“Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.”
“Young people are still experiencing the thrill of three chords and over-amplified guitars. They always will.”

Source : Source: louderthanwar.com

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