#lid

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#andrew #claim #claimed #congress #constitutional

We wanted the language to feel fresh, fun, and rock solid. ↗

— James Frank

#fresh #fun #language #rock #solid

As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#even #every #extremely #finally #good

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#find #happiness #man #marriage #most

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#experience #hypothesis #only #prediction #relevant

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#dualism #fact #female #feminine #fluid

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#art #artist #audience #creating #discovered

The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned. ↗

— Kevin Garnett

#applying #beautiful #beautiful thing #go #just

I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself. ↗

— Ina Garten

#adore #holiday #i #insist #making

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it. ↗

— Diane Lane

#cook #either #happiness #having #i