"Judges have no actual power of enforcement. They don't have troops to carry out orders. They have no power of the purse. Yet our system of laws depends on lowly citizens and presidents abiding by court rulings."

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Source : "Trump's Criticism Of Judges Out Of Line With Past Presidents". Interview with Nina Totenberg, kucb.org. February 11, 2017.

Nina Totenberg

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“Great,' I said. 'Visit exotic Australia. Get bitten by an exotic snake. Die exotically.”

Source : Steven Gould (2013). “Impulse”, p.13, Macmillan
“Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness. Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts. And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace....”

Source : Prayer from Apollo 8 on Christmas Day, December 25, 1968.
“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”
“I personally think that a couple of pounds a week - maybe rising to almost Â£3 a week - is a reasonable price for Britain to achieve a degree of energy security to reduce its total dependence on fossil fuels and to honour its commitments to cut green house gases.”
“A person didnâ€™t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldnâ€™t help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, Iâ€™d take it”
“The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.”
“Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.”

Source : Hartley Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.65
“I wanted to show a different side of ourselves. I wanted to see in what ways I could explore something new. I felt like working on a double record would give people a lot to have.”

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