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I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

Whatever else we may also be discussing, "enlightenment" was a concern with the understanding of the historical evolution of the human mind.

The latter's boast that he had never read a book for pleasure in his life did not predispose me in his favour.

There is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.

A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.

He despised music and considered it solely as an intrusion! For that matter the whole Freud family was very unmusical.

The tenth Muse who now governs the periodical press.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

The only reason Francis is in this business is because it's the most easily manipulated market in the world, and he's a master manipulator.

and thanked me for listening to his story. Now it's yours. It's out there. Do with it what you will. There it was. He wanted me to write it. I had no intention of doing so.

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

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Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the authors own conscience.

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

My first plan was to impress him with the commitment of my reviews. I found out a lot of statistics and waved them at him like breasts at the pub on Thursday.

the crucial question becomes which theory of textual interpretation is compatible with democracy. Originalism unquestionably is. Nonoriginalism, by contrast, imposes on society statutory prescriptions that were never democratically adopted.

A specific statutory provision that contravenes a general constitutional injunction or prohibition is invalid.

Expressio unius, also known as inclusio unius, is a Latin name for the communicative device known as negative implication.

Notwithstanding performs a function opposite that of subject to.

What is the effect of failing to honor a mandatory provision's terms? That is an issue for a treatise on remedies, not interpretation.

His final glance saluted the Temple, His Father's house, and the rising sun.

El determinismo circunscribe la necesidad a otra necesidad, de manera indefinida, sin encontrar jamás algo determinante en sentido propio; de ahí que todo su sistema de lo necesario resulte ser un sistema de lo innecesario, de aquello cuya efectiva presencia no proviene de sí ni de ningún otro, sino de un tercero, respecto del cual se reproduce el mismo dilema irresuelto.