#popular

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority. ↗

— Diane Watson

#been #branch #groups #historically #judicial

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. ↗

— James D. Watson

#conception #contrast #could #dull #goodly

There's no doubt about it, earmarks are not very popular. There are good earmarks and bad earmarks. The good earmarks are the ones I get for my district. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#bad #district #doubt #earmarks #get

I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides. ↗

— Shane West

#both #both sides #end #finished #friends

There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way. ↗

— Timothy West

#after #before #dinner #everybody #house

So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#alternative #gives #hear #information #internet

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty. ↗

— George Will

#between #born #end #freedom #government

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity. ↗

— Paul M. Glaser

#character #i #liked #never #objectionable

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around. ↗

— Terri Windling

#around #been #form #label #latin

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#being #else #everyone #heathen #i