"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public serviceâ€”considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government at the time of the founding, and for a century thereafterâ€”have been replaced with a professional ruling class led by governing masterminds. For the most part, they are isolated from the communities from which they hail and are consumed with the daily jockeying for position and power within their ranks. Moreover, they both pander to and lord over their constituents.”
“I'm working on a speed boat at the moment. Much more exciting. It'll really kick ass, give great photographs for the people in Bible.”
“Michael Flynn not exactly cut from that cloth. Someone who has very strong views about almost everything in the realm of national security and defense.”
“Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma, and sense in nonsense. Faeries express themselves with high seriousness and low humour. Faeries are resistant to all definitions.”
“Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts.”

Source : Ken Page (2014). “Deeper Dating: How to Drop the Games of Seduction and Discover the Power of Intimacy”, p.28, Shambhala Publications
“Iain Dowie famously coined the phrase 'bouncebackability' to describe Crystal Palace's ability to come from behind. But this is a typical manager's idea, so optimistic. What fans are interested in is 'throwawayability': which teams toss away hard-earned leads? Now we know that 'throwawayability' exists because we proved last season that 'bouncebackability' exists (although, hilariously, Palace don't have it) and 'throw-awayability' is the flip side of it.”
“I'm not fighting with myself.”
“In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.”

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