#late

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#conceal #first #first step #innocent #later

"Empathy" is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. ↗

— Karl Rove

#backlash #branch #clay #code #constitution

My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother. ↗

— Karl Rove

#been #collateral #commentators #damage #father

The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime. ↗

— Karl Rove

#costs #country #dollar #economic #ever

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#attract #gets #heart #him #his

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#device #honestly #i #i think #kindle

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#movement #something #stimulates #vehicles #writing

You know honestly I think there's a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein's Monster in all of us. They are sides of our own character so that's why I think we can relate to them in terms of a 'I know how that feels' kind of thing. ↗

— Richard Roxburgh

#dracula #feels #frankenstein #honestly #how

Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#computation #convince #everything #i #lately

Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#early #equipment #i #later #made