"To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect of the maxims that uphold public credit, and justify the solicitude manifested by the House on this point, would be an improper intrusion on their time and patience."

-- Alexander Hamilton

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“The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.”
“We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.”
“Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly.”

Source : JESSICA MITFORD (1963). “THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH”
“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”
“All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away from their pages, I dust and protect them from hungry hookworms and grubby human fingers.”
“Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.”
“What thousands and millions of recollections there must be in us! And every now and then one of them becomes known to us; and it shows us what spiritual depths are growing in us, what mines of memory.”

Source : William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.460
“We must never allow September 11th to become a time for protest and division. Instead, this day must remain a time for promoting peace and mutual respect.”

Source : "Statement From Archbishop Dolan on September 11th Protest". www.archny.org. September 10, 2010.

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