#so

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#begins #between #different #each #feel

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#happy #people #tiresome #whose

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#cases #civil #each #earth #general

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#bond #cannot #else #form #give

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#arise #because #body #enact #execute

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#because #best #dad #david #friends

I always find something to keep me busy. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#busy #find #i #i always #keep

I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#because #being #being responsible #conversation #depressing

Whenever I do your show, sometimes I get a little check in the mail and then I take that check and buy a new pair of shoes, and then I wear those shoes the next time I do your show. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#check #get #i #i do #little

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth. ↗

— David Sedaris

#grammar #just #mouth #new #new yorker