#kindlehighlight

Eisenhower has been much criticized for his failure publicly to endorse the Court's decision. But he felt that doing so would set an undesirable precedent. If a president endorsed decisions he agreed with, might he feel compelled to oppose decisions he did not agree with? And what would that do to the rule of law? "The Supreme Court has spoken and I am sworn to uphold ... the constitutional processes.... I will obey."3 ↗

— William J. Bennett

#freedom

and line of cases. Justice Byron R. "Whizzer" White, a JFK appointee, dissented, calling Doe an act of "raw judicial power," as it took these decisions from the states and enshrined their determination in the Supreme Court's reasoning. ↗

— William J. Bennett

#freedom

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#life

For Leopardi, unhappy hedonist that he was, what is unknown is always more attractive than what is known; hope and imagination are the only consolations for the disappointments and sorrows of experience. Man therefore projects his desire into infinity and feels pleasure only when he is able to imagine that this pleasure has no end. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#experience

Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#death

Don’t ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one’s death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you’re twenty years old again. That would be fun to relive. ↗

— Camilla Läckberg

#death

He is intelligent enough to get a job that would earn him good money, but too clever to want one. ↗

— Helen Smith

#intelligence

But here’s a critical point—more open decision making processes also typically require open information sharing. If you are going to involve more people in the process, they have to have the right information on which to base their decisions. ↗

— Charlene Li

#leadership

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide... ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#education

We’re not completely happy here because we’re not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better. ↗

— Rick Warren

#life