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A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.


John Cusack


#intellectual #investigated #lot #may #people

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.


John Cusack


#boy #feels #good #good things #i

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.


Salvador Dali


#almost #always #contrary #correct #mistakes

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.


Gavyn Davies


#am #authority #bbc #british #chairman

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.


Robertson Davies


#ashamed #author #belief #boundaries #critics

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.


Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach


#complain #game #others #rejoice #should

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.


Benjamin Tucker


#authority #contradiction #exercise #over #same

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.


Giorgio Vasari


#born #diligence #effort #express #few

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.


Carl Van Vechten


#author #beauty #cat #cats #grace

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.


Denis Diderot


#counter #courts #decisions #form #law






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