"The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax"

-- Thomas Paine

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“We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's very hard to describe your own style. And I'm young, so I'm still experimenting. But I think it's quite British and very much about individuality.”
“Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities.”
“Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.”
“I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.”
“To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.”

Source : "We could be heroes: an election-year letter" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2012.
“It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of contending elements of vice and virtue, and ever mainly influenced by the predominant principle of self-interest. It may, indeed, be confidently asserted, that there never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox,) virtually and substantially a monarchy.”

Source : " Universal History: From the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. I" by Alexander Fraser Tytler, Petridge and Company, (p. 216), 1854.
“The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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