"The National Education Association is the al-Qaida of education."

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Ilana Mercer

#Association Quotes #Als Quotes

“To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.”

Source : "Matter and Memory".
“When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?”
“God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment, as not being "right," we will simply have no place to receive his kingdom into our life.”
“Can you hear the dreams crackling like a campfire? Can you hear the dreams sweeping through the pine trees and tipis? Can you hear the dreams laughing in the sawdust? Can you hear the dreams shaking just a little bit as the day grows long? Can you hear the dreams putting on a good jacket that smells of fry bread and sweet smoke? Can you hear the dreams stay up late and talk so many stories?”
“If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised. This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.”

Source : "Veazie Bank v. Fenno, 75 U.S. (8 Wall.) 533". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. December 13, 1869.
“Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass.”
“I think I'm really fortunate to be an installation artist who is heavily invested in photography: I don't have the emotional problems with the loss of work that some installation artists have. The photographs wouldn't exist without the installation... but at the same time, I think I'd kill myself if I only did installations. There's something deeply tragic about doing work that you know is temporal.”
“A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take.”

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