"It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit."

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Source : "Litigant explains why he brought Pledge suit". "Talkback Live" with Arthel Neville, www.cnn.com. June 26, 2002.

Michael Newdow

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“My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.”

Source : Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1999). “Lee Krasner”, Harry N. Abrams
“A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.”
“Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine.”

Source : Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House
“[My work as a photographer is a] mission to document endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving.”
“Live every week like it's shark week.”
“I know so many people who have battled breast cancer and they didn't all make it.”
“We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.”
“As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.”

Source : Aphra Behn (2009). “Oroonoko and Other Writings”, p.75, Oxford Paperbacks

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