#aw

However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#constitutionally #defined #federal #government #however

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#confusion #go #go away #i #state

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#laws #physics #possible #should

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#cooperation #dawn #emergency #eternal #eternal peace

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.' ↗

— Scott Thompson

#activism #comedy #damaged #faults #flawed

Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#attacks #back #certainly #doing #drawing

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#being #constant #deeper #evasion #feelings

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. ↗

— James Thurber

#depend #economics #farce #funnier #his

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. ↗

— Black Elk

#being #i #i can #like #live

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#law #men #poor #rich #rich men