#author

So I don’t think I’ll make Poet Laureate, but I swear I’m not twisted and bitter, If finely-wrought talents don’t weigh in the balance, I can always write haiku on Twitter. ↗

— Rosy Cole

#contemporary-poets #new-releases #poetry #quotes #rosy-cole

But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it. ↗

— Robin McKinley

#storytelling #truth #storytelling

We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary. ↗

— Jack Lynch

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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. ↗

— Golda Meir

#everybody #himself #poisons #takes #who

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment. ↗

— Kate Millett

#based #becoming #capital #capital punishment #country

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#control #destroy #enemy #freedoms #greatest

Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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