#thor

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

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You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#cannot #delegate #responsibility #you

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve. ↗

— Maureen Dowd

#authority #beautiful #celebrity #democracy #deserve

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#failure #first #i #man #me

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#i #man #me #satisfied #show

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#cases #characteristic #commercial #composers #down

Our very existence refuses your laws and your science, your religions and your philosophies. ↗

— B.E. Scully

#horror-authors #vampire #religion

These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#code #could #distribution #etc #fascism

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. ↗

— Brendan Francis

#authority #book #hands #infantryman #like

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. ↗

— Marie de France

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