"He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant and the feeble-minded as intellectual."

-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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“There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.”

Source : "Gonzales: 'There Is No Express Grant of Habeas Corpus In The Constitution'". Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings Transcript, thinkprogress.org. January 19, 2007.
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“People who know the truth have no business to allow the powers of darkness to silence them on any point that matters.”
“In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range”
“There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.”
“Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.”
“Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.”
“Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.”

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