#slate

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius. ↗

— Dahlia Lithwick

#jurisprudence #slate #equality

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#expect #liberty #translated

The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom. ↗

— Dahlia Lithwick

#jurisprudence #slate #freedom

Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater ↗

— Ted Dekker

#living #slater #humor

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire. ↗

— Rumi

#desire

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#does #hatred #legislate #only #organizes

Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#colonial #condemned #increasingly #into #new

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#audience #concert #instinct #into #me

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#dues #every #incremental #into #payment

In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#define #detriment #either #fact #government