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So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#assent #authority #canons #clergy #constitution

I spend a lot of time in American Apparel. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#apparel #i #lot #spend #time

I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create. ↗

— Jack Irons

#band #cameron #could #create #finish

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#because #bleak #commercially #dramas #get

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#before #change #dramatic #dramatic change #enormously

And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles. ↗

— Tim Holden

#american #consumption #half #motor #oil

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#envy #i #me #merely #no respect

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#fewer #former #furnish #idea #latter

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#awful #basically #college #come #equal

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. ↗

— J. Edgar Hoover

#cases #commerce #fbi #i #interstate