"It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please . . . . Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. It [the Constitution] was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“For a theory to be scientific it must be capable of being refuted by the evidence. Given that we have had three decades of rising temperature followed by a decade of stable and slightly falling temperatures worldwide, how many decades would you require before you are convinced that the theory on which you are committing Â£400bn of taxpayers' money might be slightly wrong?”

Source : House of Commons debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. June 4, 2009.
“Sometimes I felt I got caught up kind of going into the clubhouse non-chalantly sometimes, because all of the other guys in the clubhouse didn't go there with one goal in mind.”
“Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.”

Source : "Excellent Quotations for Home and School" by Julia B. Hoitt (p.115), 1890.
“I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.”
“Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.”
“Being around the energy of new people is wonderful. It only lifts my performance and makes it better.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.”
“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”

Source : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

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