#posed

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author. ↗

— Scott Turow

#burden #carry #proof #prosecutor #really

I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my life, it went mainstream. A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for them to see me go through something that was so pointless, that could have been avoided. ↗

— Michael Vick

#avoided #because #been #could #exposed

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

#contrary #diverse #doubt #ends #had

Many individual growers now are growing organic fruit, and many are taking it upon themselves to market their own products to the public, as opposed to necessarily going through big processors, although, obviously, the bulk of the fruit still is dealt with that way. ↗

— Greg Walden

#big #bulk #dealt #fruit #going

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#cruelty #disposed #man #may #mistake

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value. ↗

— Paul Walker

#hope #i #just #make #marquee

When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#anything #enamoured #i #like #me

I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#crisis #farm #i #maybe #people

Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#accommodation #airline #articles #bags #beautiful

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed. ↗

— Robert Welch

#fortune #good #good fortune #imposed #indeed