#vic

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#commercial #continuing #copyright #creative #creative work

Those who fight in God's cause will be victorious. ↗

— Saddam Hussein

#fight #god #those #victorious #who

We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#been #black #canadian #descended #engage

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#came #concepts #correct #devices #early

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be. ↗

— Judith Light

#instead #into #meant #meant to be #ourselves

Obama just announced Americans don't consider themselves victims, or entitled. Actually, the vast majority of Obama supporters believe exactly that. They believe exactly that. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#announced #believe #consider #entitled #exactly

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#convicts #like #live #more #move

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#appear #bank #courts #declare #gesture

Instead of making people victims of people who are successful, we should be telling people, 'Look, you are having a hard time, I feel bad for you. Let's look at what you're doing, let's teach you how to succeed. Let's give you the tools to succeed as opposed to turning everybody into victims. ↗

— Jon Lovitz

#doing #everybody #feel #give #hard

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#ill #likely #mentally #most #parents