#ten

When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces. ↗

— Joe Biden

#authority #authorize #chief #commander #constitution

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had. ↗

— Joe Biden

#authority #competent #election #had #how

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#much #over #papers #rubbish #up

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself. ↗

— David Walliams

#books #children #demanding #i #just

If “piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission- if “if value, then right” is true- then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy. Every important sector of “big media” today- film, records, radio, and cable TV-was born of a kind of piracy so defined. The consistent story is how last generation’s pirates join this generation’s country club-until now. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#media #piracy #nature

I've got problems and if you sentence me to additional time, I'm going to compound them. ↗

— Gary Gilmore

#compound #going #got #i #me

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#career #early #gotten #i #later

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#continuity #descartes #existence #existentialism #experience

I believe that dogma is often evil. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#dogma #evil #i #i believe #i believe that

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#constant #good #important #just #major