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“A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.”
Source : John Marshall (2005). “The Political and Economic Doctrines of John Marshall”, p.337, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
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“So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.”
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“I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything.”
Source : "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Woman of Will's Amanda McBroom, Returning to Piazza and a Wicked Thought". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 19, 2005.
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“Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.”
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“Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident; they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out to solve them directly.”
Source : Lee Smolin (2007). “The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next”, p.314, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.”
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“My wife really pushed me in that direction, to write my own songs and start singing, so I think having the whole family thing is such a huge thing.”
Source : Source: www.hamptons.com
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“The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love.†from “Memoriam”
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“Generally, if you look at present-day trends, you can predict the future. Very few people do that, because I've been told that only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are now. When Stalin was alive, most people could not imagine that he would ever die. Same under Brezhnev.”
Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
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“So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.”