Basis States

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“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)