"As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you."

-- Abraham Lincoln

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“Let every act be just, and proper, and beneficial.”

Source : Ann Leckie (2013). “Ancillary Justice: THE HUGO, NEBULA AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD WINNER”, p.118, Hachette UK
“Each life has a different purpose, and some people can find their purpose more easily than others. The key, the most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice" "No matter why you're here, no matter why any of us are here, you're never tied down to fate. You're never locked in. You make your own choices, Kira, and you can't let anyone ever take that away from you.”
“I went to Berlin for a year and a half, and that's where I learned about culture and art and everything. Before that, I lived in total absence of culture. I come from a house where there was nothing like reading or art.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.”
“There are no laws that prohibit an American president from continuing to be involved in their private business matters while in office, right?”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.”
“He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports.”
“The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life”

Source : Ma Jian (2008). “Beijing Coma: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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