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“That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.”

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George Mason

George Mason was an American statesman, lawyer, and writer, renowned for his profound contributions to constitutional freedoms and rights. Born on December 11, 1725, and died on October 7, 1792, Mason was a key figure in the drafting of the Virginia Constitution and played a significant role in the American Revolutionary War. more

“In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics pretty well assimilated and a lot of work in thermodynamics going on, man was looked on as a heat engine, about 40 per cent efficient. Now in the twentieth century, with nuclear and subatomic physics a going thing, man had become something which absorbs X-rays, gamma rays and neutrons.”

Men Wells Century Regard Nuclear Physics Heat Rays Engines Efficient Cents Twentieth Century Convenient Nineteenth Century Clockwork Thermodynamics Neutrons Gamma Rays

Book:V.

Source: V.

“Right and left; the hothouse and the street. The Right can only live and work hermetically, in the hothouse of the past, while outside the Left prosecute their affairs in the streets manipulated by mob violence. And cannot live but in the dreamscape of the future.”

Past Left Violence Streets Affair

Book:V.: A Novel

Source: V.: A Novel

“A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void: for all the other buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and forests of the earth were contained in this tapestry, and the tapestry was the world.”

World Kind Earth Girl Rooms Numbers Building Creatures Window Wave Seeking Forests Ships Prisoner Void Towers Frail Tapestry Slits Fill The Void

Book:The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49

“The reality is in this head. Mine. I'm the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.”

Littles Sometimes Reality Eye Universe Stage Mines Mouths Circles Visible Coming Out Projectors

Book:The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49

“I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.”

Ifs Men Feels Has Beens Dream Boys Old Man Grandfather My Grandfather

Book:The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49

“If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.”

Ifs Persons Would Be America Darkness Towns Sat Lancaster

Book:Mason & Dixon

Source: Mason & Dixon

“There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.”

People Men Lying Understanding Imposing Lechery

Book:Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: to which are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of Eminent Men, by John Aubrey, Esq: The Whole Now First Published from the Originals in the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum, with Biographical and Literary Illustrations ...

Source: Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: to which are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of Eminent Men, by John Aubrey, Esq: The Whole Now First Published from the Originals in the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum, with Biographical and Literary Illustrations ...

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