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«America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing.»
Author: Don Delillo
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
accommodate, and so on, local, recur, recurring, themes, types
«Consider what kind of nation we would be if hundreds of scandals involving state and local government still lay locked in the mouths of citizens.»
«All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.»
Author: Earl Warren
(Judge, Politician)
| About:
Discrimination
| Keywords:
discrimination, Federal, in public, local, permitting, provisions, public education, requiring
«All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| Keywords:
asserted, enlarging, incoherence, intricacies, intricacy, local, mythologies, poetic
«GARGOYLE, n. A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, commonly fashioned into a grotesque caricature of some personal enemy of the architect or owner of the building. This was especially the case in churches and ecclesiastical structures generally, in which the gargoyles presented a perfect rogues' gallery of local heretics and controversialists. Sometimes when a new dean and chapter were installed the old gargoyles were removed and others substituted having a closer relation to the private animosities of the new incumbents.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
animosities, architect, Buildings, caricatures, chapter, churches, deans, eaves, ecclesiastical, gallery, gargoyle, Heretics, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, install, local, mediaeval, owner, personal relation, Personal relations, presented, projecting, spout, spouted, spouting, spouts, substituted, The Building, The Dean, This Was
«EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect. Following is an extract from an old book entitled, _The Lunarian Astonished_ --Pfeiffer & Co., Boston, 1803:LUNARIAN: Then when your Congress has passed a law it goes directly to the Supreme Court in order that it may at once be known whether it is constitutional? TERRESTRIAN: O no; it does not require the approval of the Supreme Court until having perhaps been enforced for many years somebody objects to its operation against himself --I mean his client. The President, if he approves it, begins to execute it at once. LUNARIAN: Ah, the executive power is a part of the legislative. Do your policemen also have to approve the local ordinances that they enforce? TERRESTRIAN: Not yet --at least not in their character of constables. Generally speaking, though, all laws require the approval of those whom they are intended to restrain. LUNARIAN: I see. The death warrant is not valid until signed by the murderer. TERRESTRIAN: My friend, you put it too strongly; we are not so consistent. LUNARIAN: But this system of maintaining an expensive judicial machinery to pass upon the validity of laws only after they have long been executed, and then only when brought before the court by some private person --does it not cause great confusion? TERRESTRIAN: It does. LUNARIAN: Why then should not your laws, previously to being executed, be validated, not by the signature of your President, but by that of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? TERRESTRIAN: There is no precedent for any such course. LUNARIAN: Precedent. What is that? TERRESTRIAN: It has been defined by five hundred lawyers in three volumes each. So how can any one know?»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
approval, approve, approves, Boston, Chief Executive, chief justice, client, co, constable, constables, constitutional, court order, death warrant, death wish, department, enforce, enforced, entitled, execute, executed, Executive power, extract, five hundred, five year old, friend of the court, Great Court, invalid, invalids, judicial system, justice system, legislative, Legislative power, local, local department, local government, machinery, Maintaining, murderer, officer, Old Court, ordinances, policemen, precedent, previously, private parts, pronounce, restrain, signature, signatures, signed, strongly, Supreme Power, The Court, valid, validate, validated, validates, validating, validity, volumes, warrant, warranted, warrants
«If you want to know what life is like in the Soviet Union, go to your local department of motor vehicles»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
department, Department of, local, local department, motor, motoring, motors, soviet, Soviets, Soviet Union, union, vehicles
«For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
circle, elements, endeavoring, helpless, lets, local, major, narrow, passive, The Elements, trade, trade union, Trade unions, unions
«In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.»