#resents

"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

Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#communities #experience #freedom #ideal #immigrant

And the Tea Party represents many of us who believe that we are taxed enough already. We believe in free markets. ↗

— Tim Scott

#believe #enough #free #free markets #many

We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every generation. Israel, which wishes to be an exemplary democracy, will not be able to bear such a reality over time. The Disengagement Plan presents the possibility of opening a gate to a different reality. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#bear #democracy #desire #different #disengagement

The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death. ↗

— Julian Lincoln Simon

#death #increase #our #population #represents

'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#optimistic #purgatory #represents #rocky #side

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#days #get #hundred #know #might

What do you see when you look in the mirror?' 'I? I see myself holding a pair of thick, woolen socks.' Harry stared. 'One can never have enough socks,' said Dumbledore. 'Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#mirror-of-erised #presents #christmas

I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#because #belief #correct #every #ground

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts. ↗

— Ted W. Engstrom

#becomes #best #effort #efforts #inseparably