"Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political systemâ€¦The central feature of the American constitutional systemâ€”the separation of powersâ€”exacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but to be tolerable and malleable. Those who designed these arrangements always assumed that the federal government would exercise few and limited powers."

-- James Q. Wilson

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“When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.”
“Jessica Lange is a sweetheart, the nicest lady in the world. She has a Poodle named Jack.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The greatest pleasure in life is love.”

Source : Sir William Temple, Jonathan Swift, Lady Martha Giffard (1740). “The life and character of Sir William Temple, written by a particular friend [his sister Lady Giffard] Observations upon the United provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs, the third part, from the peace concluded 1679 to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the war begun 1672, to the peace concluded 1679”, p.309
“Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of nations.”

Source : August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan
“Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them. [...] We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.”

Source : "The Shadow of the Torturer". Book by Gene Wolfe, 1980.
“Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.”
“Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.”
“When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.”

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