"Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them."

-- Alexander Hamilton

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“A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.”

Source : Jean Bricmont, Alan Sokal (2011). “Intellectual Impostures”, p.196, Profile Books
“There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.”
“Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.”

Source : "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.
“Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.”
“But even if you thought they were adequate at the time, when you're collecting data in bulk-you've got it. The data lasts until you delete it; the rules only last until you decide to change them, and change them in secret.”
“Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.”
“It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.”

Source : Ouida (1889). “Works: Pascarel”
“Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable world that may or may not lie beyond the proscenium arch.”

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