#rve

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#history #interpretation #intervening #look #mean

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way. ↗

— David Brooks

#born #did #family #into #matters

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#because #book #books #call #cautionary

The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer. ↗

— Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#american #any #borne #costs #defense

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#coming #day #freshly #observed #off

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#geological #scientist #soil #survey

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#deserves #himself #insulted #who

I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily. ↗

— Ronnie Corbett

#die #easily #entertainment #feel #gaiety

The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money. ↗

— Jim Cramer

#buying #deserve #going #know #lose

Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#catholic faith #conformity #example #faith #far