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I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer. I don't like… — John Prine
there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the… — James Madison
The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in… — William J. Brennan
I don't believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee... I'm going to give you some advice that might be hard to take.… — Steve Wozniak
I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for myself. ....And I… — Smokey Robinson
But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for another nomination by… — Alexander Hamilton
I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead… — Richard M. Nixon
Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had… — Lewis H. Lapham
That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy… — James Madison
If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
Distinguish open-minded people from closed-minded people. Open-minded people seek to learn by asking questions; they realize that what they know is little in relation to… — Ray Dalio
The truth is if I had a gay son, I would love him just as much as if he was straight. I might have to… — Tracy Morgan
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. — Marianne Moore
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. — Leon Kass
There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. — Robert Breault
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime… — John Milton
If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be… — Oliver Goldsmith
[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It… — Seth Shostak
A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn… — Germaine Greer
Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly… — Allan McLeod Cormack
I must admit that when I chose the name, "vitamine," I was well aware that these substances might later prove not to be of an… — Unknown Author
Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to… — William Wordsworth
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do… — Florence Nightingale
You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain. — Margaret Atwood
Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some things need to… — Andy Wilkinson

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