#ado

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. ↗

— George Santayana

#adorn #among #any #away #beautiful

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#advantage #attitude #because #constructed #great

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#adolescence #atmosphere #beginning #being #critical

In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable. ↗

— Dan Savage

#agree #agreement #ceiling #enforceable #floor

I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene. ↗

— Dan Savage

#allergic #dogs #even #gay #gene

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#career #children #dynamic #early #gave

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#adopt #again #bring #citizens #constitution

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#good #great #irony #paradox #same

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#morality #paradox #sense #without

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#away #charges #explain #invariably #jews