"A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out."

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Source : "The Commandments" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. January 17, 2011.

Jill Lepore

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“Be the person others can count on to get things done”
“There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.”
“And here is our girl, looking-- If possible, worse than before. (You thought this was Cinderella transistorized?)”

Source : James Tiptree, Jr. (2014). “Her Smoke Rose Up Forever”, p.59, Hachette UK
“When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food.”
“Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”
“Many of our racetracks were built in the '60s - not much real estate for runoff.”

Source : Source: blog.caranddriver.com
“At the assassination of Caesar when Cassius says, "How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over in states unborn and accents yet unknown!" And you kind of went, "Never was there a truer word spoken."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue....”

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