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Letter "L" » legislators
«We have to wipe out Bushism itself, before it wipes us out. That means showing up and voting smart in every election, big and small. I think that in many ways that, the local elections are even more important than the national elections. It's the mayors and the city councils and county comissioners and the school boards and the legislators that decide how to spend the money they fleece off of us in taxes.»
«The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.»
Author: Ben Okri
| Keywords:
acknowledged, coded, dislike, frontiers, legislate, legislated, legislates, legislator, legislators, mysteries, police
«The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
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Arts and Industries, Arts and Sciences, attainment, beasts, cultivated, exposed, fury, inclemency, legislator, legislators, modeled, ordained, patriots, sciences, societies, The Elements, The Fury, The Lonely
«We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
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enforcement, law enforcement, legislator, legislators, passage
«Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
architects, artists, implement, implemented, implementing, implements, legislator, legislators
«A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of the last seven presidents were potty trained, not to mention nearly half of the nation's state legislators.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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coincidence, last half, legislator, legislators, mention, nation state, not to mention, potty-trained, potty, Presidents, The Nation, trained
«When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
auction, bidder, bidders, construction, flatterers, guides, legislators
«Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
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Poets
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legislator, legislators, unacknowledged
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