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The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it. ↗

— Larry J. Sabato

#affect #archaic #bill #bill of rights #bits

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

#any #becomes #community #destructive #egoism

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#believe #destruction #dynamite #even #far

Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street. ↗

— Vince Neil

#any #dudes #everybody #forgotten #just

While these attitudes are more visible when direct- ed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#attitudes #corporation #distrust #ed #evidence

I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#better #better sense #define #describe #get

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. ↗

— Jean Nidetch

#choice #destiny #determines #your

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself. ↗

— Marguerite Yourcenar

#attach #care #cult #goddess #herself

I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research. ↗

— Sandy Adams

#both #cell #cell research #cloning #destruction

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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