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“Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have felt on a sunny afternoon when, in our brightest youth and health, life has opened a new vista for us, and long to-morrows of activity have stretched before us like a lovely plain which there was no need for hurrying to look at, because it was all our own.”
Source: Adam Bede
“Author relates the reaction of an Irish village to a landowner who tried to raise rents on the land's occupants. The villagers refused to talk to or trade with the man, whose name was Captain Boycott.”
Source: The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
“AUTHOR'S GOODREADS PAGE: I like dysfunction. Broken people who can't fix each other, but fit together because they're missing the same pieces.”
“Author's Prayer
If I speak for the dead, I must
leave this animal of my body,
I must write the same poem over and over
for the empty page is a white flag of their surrender.
If I speak of them, I must walk
on the edge of myself, I must live as a blind man
who runs through the rooms without
touching the furniture.
Yes, I live. I can cross the streets asking "What year
is it?"
I can dance in my sleep and laugh
in front of the mirror.
Even sleep is a prayer, Lord,
I will praise your madness, and
in a language not mine, speak
of music that wakes us, music
in which we move. For whatever I say
is a kind of petition and the darkest days
must I praise.”
Source: Dancing in Odessa
“Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.”
“Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them.”
Source: Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
“Author says that, while Eisenhower had other intellectual mentors, he learned how to lead men from Gen. Walter Krueger. Krueger was the first American enlisted man to rise to four-star general, and he so identified with those he led that he once invited a sentry out of the rain and gave him his own dry uniform.”
“Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.”
Source: Simply Christian
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A smile doesn’t erase the hard times, but it gives you the strength to walk through them”
“Author Steven Magee was raised in the suburbs of northeast Liverpool, Merseyside, UK, and is currently fifty-three years old. He takes life extension supplements that are detailed in the book Long COVID Supplements. He has seen some of his Merseyside friends die prematurely.”
Source: Long COVID Supplements
“Author's Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy.”
Source: The Gods Themselves
“Authoritarian approaches may instil fear and obedience in the short term, but they erode trust and autonomy, essential elements of a healthy teacher-student relationship.”
“Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.”
“Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth.”
Source: The Cave
“Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.”
Source: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
“Authoritarian rule is as good or bad as the ruler himself; Democracy sounds terrific on papers and its advantage is misused by unscrupulous people to the maximum; hence Communism flourished in the name of peoples' equality, but reduced them to a number only!”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“Authoritarian, secretive, sometimes grandiose, and even paranoid, the perpetrator is nevertheless exquisitely sensitive to the realities of power and to social norms. Only rarely does he get into difficulties with the law; rather, he seeks out situations where his tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired. His demeanor provides an excellent camouflage, for few people believe that extraordinary crimes can be committed by men of such conventional appearance.”
Source: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
“Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power.”
“Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.”
“Authoritarianism reaches further than borders—it reaches into our bedrooms.”
Source: Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story
“Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to control.”
“Authoritative interpretations of the First Amendment guarantees have consistently refused to recognize an exception for any test of truth whether administered by judges, juries, or administrative officials and especially one that puts the burden of proving truth on the speaker.”
“Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on.”
“Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.”
“Authorities in New York City have foiled a plot by terrorists to blow up the Holland Tunnel. There was one awkward moment when officials informed President Bush the Holland Tunnel was safe. Bush then thanked the Dutch authorities for all their help.”
“Authorities say brain cells may shrink, but they don't necessarily die. Frankly, I am cheered by the fact that something is shrinking. I'd be even more thrilled if what was shrinking affected my dress size, but you can't have everything.”
“Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.”
“Authority and example lead the world.”
“Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.”
“Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.”
Source: Man and the State
“Authority can mean different things to different people. For example, some document or other may be authoritative for particular group even though it's not reliable. It's just that the group has accepted that document as authoritative for their group. And some documents are truthful and reliable but they are ignored, so they have no authority for that particular group.”
“Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.”
“Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose.”
“Authority does not equal competency.”
“Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them.”
“Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket. "Where does it come from?" "From the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.”
Source: The Way of Kings
“Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.”
“Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Authority figures always attract trouble”
“Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.”
“Authority forgets a dying king.”
“Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.”
“Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race”
Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus
“Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.”
Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus
“Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.”
“Authority in its very nature prevents the full awareness of oneself and therefore ultimately destroys freedom; in freedom alone can there be creativeness.”
Source: The First and Last Freedom
“Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.”
“Authority is 20% given and 80% taken...so take it!”
“Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the authority, by some hundreds and see the effect upon a sea-captain, to say nothing of an absolute monarch.Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; unless it so happens that he is immune to the poison.”
“Authority is always built on service and sacrifice.”