"If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in a Government contract terms reasonably calculated to assure its performance even though there be no money loss through a particular default, there is no problem. But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one."

-- Felix Frankfurter

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“I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.”
“I will have nothing to do with a bomb!”
“Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.”
“There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.”
“In The Jaguar's Children we enter the dangerous borderlands between countries and generations; myth and magic; human community and the vast, infinitely mysterious, wild environment. Here, John Vaillant proves that his heart and imagination are as expansive and fierce as his radiant intellect. Never have I encountered a writer with more energy or compassion.”
“There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is pretending to be a fascist or an authoritarian.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.”

Source : Claire Cook (2015). “Seven Year Switch”, p.222, Marshbury Beach Books
“One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.”

Source : Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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