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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#arise #because #body #enact #execute

There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#country #criminals #high #offenders #over

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#did #enable #maintain #me #objectivity

If you have to drag somebody to register, they're not highly motivated. ↗

— Roger Stone

#highly #motivated #register #somebody #you

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#become #being #besides #consider #extraordinary

The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#columbia #democrat #democrats #district #district of columbia

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change. ↗

— David Suzuki

#change #changes #environmental #evolutionary #explosive

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#after #among #anguish #birth #copy

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry. ↗

— Allen Tate

#come #does #geneticists #happen #how

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#argument #comes #go #hand #i