"Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has."

-- Jacob Lew

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“Why should we tell kidnappers, murderers, and embezzlers their rights? If they don't know their rights, they shouldn't be in the business.”
“This is not about the aesthetics: there is a rule in a society: "Whoever you deal with, makes you become them", therefore watching the efforts of para-athletes can bring the temporary mobility disorder. If we want humanity to develop, the television should show us people who are healthy, beautiful, strong, honest and wise - not perverts, murderers, weaklings, losers, idiots or invalids.”
“...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.”

Source : Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.84, Macmillan
“[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.”
“I still love things that you don't even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars.”
“I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. . . But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism.”

Source : Peter Burwash, John Tullius (1983). “Peter Burwash's Vegetarian Primer”, Atheneum Books
“And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.”
“The Fundamental Regulator Paradox ... The task of a regulator is to eliminate variation, but this variation is the ultimate source of information about the quality of its work. Therefore, the better the job a regulator does the less information it gets about how to improve.”

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