"I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be."

-- Diogenes

“Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.”

Source : Simon Bolivar's final proclamation to the people of Colombia (December 8, 1830) as quoted in Thomas Rourke "Man of Glory: Simon Bolivar", 1939.
“It is an immense privilege to be able to play in the NHL. I was very blessed and a lot of things went my way to be able to make it.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“It's still a lean back, enjoy or a lean forward, be involved, enjoy medium. It's real engagement, real emotion.”
“The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the principle consists in giving to the edges of the pyramid a curve of such a nature that this pyramid shall be capable of resisting the force of the wind without necessitating the junction of the edges by diagonals as is usually done.”
“Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.”
“I'm not someone who likes to be in the whole Hollywood tabloids.”
“It doesn't take a genius to see what happens when the entitlement state outgrows the economy upon which it rests. The time of Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, the rest of insolvent social-democratic Europe - and now Detroit - is the time for conservatives to raise the banner of Stein's Law and yell, 'Stop.' You can kick the can down the road, but at some point it disappears over a cliff.”
“No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself.”

Source : Christopher Gadsden (1966). “The Writings of Christopher Gadsden, 1746-1805”, Columbia : University of South Carolina Press

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