Benjamin Wittes Quotes
The idea that the president doesn't interfere in law-enforcement investigative matters is one of our deep normative expectations of the modern presidency. But it is not a matter of law. Legally, if the president of the United States wants to direct the specific conduct of investigations, that is his constitutional prerogative.
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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
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Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.
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If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie.
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
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Liberation cannot be desired because desire is the bondage. When you are desireless, you are liberated.
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If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
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The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
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'WTF is MDNA?
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Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one’s mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.
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We know that enlightened capital didn't get rid of the slave trade.
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Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.
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Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
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And maybe that's being the third child, although my entire family are very resilient - very, very resilient.
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It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get caught, we will be punished. But that doesn't make us good people; it only makes us subdued. Just think about the Congress and Senate and even the president. The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.
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The idea that the president doesn't interfere in law-enforcement investigative matters is one of our deep normative expectations of the modern presidency. But it is not a matter of law. Legally, if the president of the United States wants to direct the specific conduct of investigations, that is his constitutional prerogative.
