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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an
escape
from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from
these things.
T. S. Eliot

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always
eventually triumph. And there\'s purpose and worth to each and every life.
Ronald Reagan

Founding Fathers Quotes

Another not unimportant consideration is, that the powers of the general government will be, and indeed must be, principally
employed upon external objects, such as war, peace, negotiations with foreign powers, and foreign commerce. In its internal
operations it can touch but few objects, except to introduce regulations beneficial to the commerce, intercourse, and other
relations, between the states, and to lay taxes for the common good. The powers of the states, on the other hand, extend to
all objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, and liberties, and property of the people, and the
internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the state.
Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded
some country.
Clint Eastwood