"What constitutes a state? . . . . . . . Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. . . . . . . . And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill."

-- William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell

#Men Quotes #Law Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because Im not so censored when I use dream material.”
“set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts”
“Thank God we are not to be judged by the opinions of our fellows, but by the work that we do.”
“There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.”
“When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.”
“Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its hum an rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.' What did we do, who preceded you ? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made....”
“I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.”
“If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.”

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