“ There has to be a movement now to really oppose what he is proposing because it's unconstitutional, it's immoral and basically illegal. ”
- Jessica Lange- Copy
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“ In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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“ To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts… I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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