"Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and also do hereby decree the disfranchisement and imprisonment, for not more than 10, nor less than five, years, to all persons leading to any violation of this our imperial decree."

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Source : Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.11, Seven Stories Press

Emperor Norton

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“Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be.”

Source : Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1860). “Historical pictures retouched: A volume of miscellanies. In two parts”, p.169
“My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.”
“You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.”

Source : Gertrude Stein (2015). “Three Lives”, Xist Publishing
“Creativity takes courage.”
“Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”
“Build patterns on time with God into your life when your worship leading...Never let your time leading on a public stage eclipse whatâ€™s going on with you and God behind closed doors.”
“We must by every means humble our hearts and subdue our proud intellect, lest we should be like the contemporaries of the prophets, who looked on them only as sweet-voiced singers, and nothing more; they did not wish to fulfill their commands, they even despised, persecuted, beat and killed them; lest we should be like those, by whom 'no prophet is accepted in his own country' (Lk. 4:24).”
“Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.”

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