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It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case. ↗


— Robert Creeley


#case #dad #else #family #his

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China. ↗


— Nick Lampson


#authoritarian #beacon #cannot #china #democracy

The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles. When the steep glide began, people rose, fell, collided, swam in their seats. Then the serious screaming and moaning began. Almost immediately a voice from the flight deck was heard on the intercom: "We're falling out of the sky! We're going down! We're a silver gleaming death machine!" This outburst struck the passengers as an all but total breakdown of authority, competence and command presence and it brought on a round of fresh and desperate wailing. ↗


— Don DeLillo


#authority #death #death

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility. ↗


— Byron Dorgan


#cannot #delegate #responsibility #you

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve. ↗


— Maureen Dowd


#authority #beautiful #celebrity #democracy #deserve

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. ↗


— Tom Glazer


#cases #characteristic #commercial #composers #down

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language. ↗


— Max Frisch


#between #dealer #difference #horse #language

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority. ↗


— Sonny Landham


#erosion #need #parental #stop

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not. ↗


— Ziggy Marley


The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done. ↗


— Louis Leakey


#done #how #illustrate #just #knows






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