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Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their public trust to… — Mark Levin
I am not too happy with terms like â€œthe leftâ€, to be honest. And I donâ€™t use it muchâ€¦.if by â€œthe leftâ€ you mean people… — Noam Chomsky
Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is:… — Winona LaDuke
To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I… — Marilynne Robinson
Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter,… — Nicholas Sparks
Charlie, youâ€™re one of the most gifted people Iâ€™ve ever known. And I donâ€™t mean in terms of my other students. I mean in terms… — Stephen Chbosky
I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that… — Wendell Berry
Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love… — Wendell Berry
They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you… — Robert Penn Warren
Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else. — Erwin Schrodinger
Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and… — Richard Wright
Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war. — David Mitchell
With my eyes closed, I ask if she knows how this will all turn out. "Long-term or short-term?" she asks. Both. "Long-term," she says, "we're… — Chuck Palahniuk
Ashley tugged on his sleeve. "You're scaring me Walter." "Sorry I guess talking about ghosts is-" "It's not that," she interrupted shaking her head. "You're… — Bryan Davis
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always… — Stendhal
If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked… — C.S. Lewis
Tumultuouness,if coupled to discipline and cool mind,is not such a bad sort of thing.That unless one wants to live a stunningly boring life,one ought to… — Kay Redfield Jamison
The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected… — William A. Dembski
The message of "The Winner Takes It All" is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is an emotional fallacy.… — Chuck Klosterman
He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but won't, possibly can't,… — Michael Cunningham

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