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«Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Love,
Suffering
| Keywords:
as we say, due to, invalid, invalids, physicians
«In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.»
Author: Richard Eder
| About:
Books,
Writing
| Keywords:
book, house, invalid, invalids, in the middle, middle, the book, The Silence, worked, writer
«The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
assumption, common cause, correlation, errors, human error, implies, invalid, invalids, reasoning
«There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.»
Author: William McFee
| Keywords:
awaken, galvanize, galvanizes, invalid, invalids, on the other hand, staggering
«A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Money
| Keywords:
good weather, invalid, invalids
«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:
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«The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
cowardly, dependence, entail, entailed, entailing, indecent, invalid, invalids, parasite, physicians, right to life, The Meaning of Life, vegetate, vegetated, vegetates, vegetating
«The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.»
«All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
conservatives, defects, halt, invalid, invalids