#spot

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#despotic #law #morals #relaxed #versa

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#idealism #just #politics #thought #will

I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all. ↗

— Freddy Adu

#after #basically #because #been #being

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards. ↗

— Aeschines

#assured #citizen #citizens #constitution #democracy

You know when everyone's watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine. ↗

— Shaun Alexander

#chance #dad #everyone #friends #get

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#descended #down #during #encampment #ground

When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#babies #been #eagles #every #evidence

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot. ↗

— Bernard Barton

#chance #cling #earth #fancy #feeling

Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked. ↗

— Michael Behe

#actually #although #attempt #could #darwin

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#commit #despot #developed #developed world #leaders