#nation

True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty. ↗

— Eric Liu

#calls #constitution #critical #critical role #demand

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#children #combination #could #feeling #go

I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#brought #compatible #fairly #god #home

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow? ↗

— Pierre Loti

#break #could #determination #duty #fast

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. ↗

— George Horace Lorimer

#determination #every #get #go #going

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#astonishment #egypt #exercised #fascination #hesitation

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy. ↗

— Trent Lott

#discrimination #does #policy #public #public policy

The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes. ↗

— Trent Lott

#bound #common #different #even #formed

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#black #delving #fascination #form #into

NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station. ↗

— James Lovelock

#between #big #cheaper #deflect #earth