"The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority."

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Source : "Patriotic Gore" by Brian Doherty, reason.com. January 18, 2006.

Felix Frankfurter

#Political Quotes #Doe Quotes #Fence Quotes

“I just read that one scene for Emily in New Moon, and it was pretty simple and straightforward. They liked that I did it really natural. They were like, "That was great!," even with what little I had. Sometimes just having those little scenes are a lot tougher than if you have five pages because you have to go from 0 to 100 in a snap.”
“It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence.”
“In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.”
“I am only about winning and getting better.”
“Once when I was cooking I burned my arm with scalding water. I went to the Emergency Room of the Hospital. When the doctor came in he looked at me and looked at my chart, and looked at me and looked at my chart, then looked at me again and said, "I loved your show!" He told me that when he was doing his internship he would come home every night stressed out, but he would watch a late night rerun of the Andy Griffith Show and relax and fall asleep. He said, "I wouldn't be a doctor, if it wasn't for the Andy Griffith Show".”
“The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.”
“When you make genuine contact with your inner Spirit, there is an inner joy, an inner peace, that takes over.”
“I gained an inner peace, the serenity of a prisoner, so to speak.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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