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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#death #image #leads #sadness #silence

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#even #lacking #makes #think #unbearable

I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening. ↗

— Brandon Routh

#i #kind #less #listening #looking

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify. ↗

— Brandon Routh

#growing #growing up #necessarily #quantify #small

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#call #every #father #friend #here

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#false #feeling #good #guides #man

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. ↗

— Karl Rove

#better #democratic #education #good #good thing

"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

If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young. ↗

— Tatyana Tolstaya

#back #because #collapsed #come #else

I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual. ↗

— Karl Rove

#fearsome #i #i think #individual #less