#preserves

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country. ↗

— Anita Desai

#country #curious #history #how #india

While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage. ↗

— John Boehner

#activist #amendment #constitutional #constitutional amendment #current

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#democracy #just #law #mechanic #organic

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#because #diverted #innocence #lot #novels

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#betterment #concept #content #essential #ideal

It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the Source of numberless Blessings, which are interrupted, or wholly vanish, the Moment it is disturbed. ↗

— Charles Inglis

#blessings #disturbed #individuals #injuries #interests

If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves. ↗

— Agnes Macphail

#economic freedom #freedom #give #home #homes

I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#benefited #build #development #directly #farmers

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again. ↗

— Leon Blum

#child #forty #her #makes #preserves

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#business #cannot #creative #does #flourish