"The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination and confirmation, which remains an unbroken record, although Merrick Garland will surpass it in July, if my math is right. Anti-Semitism was definitely not the central reason for the opposition, which tended to focus more on his anti-corporate radicalism, but it was a theme."

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Source : Source: www.slate.com

Jeffrey Rosen

#Math Quotes #June Quotes #July Quotes

“I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.”
“As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined.”

Source : Isabella Beeton, Nicola Humble (2008). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition”, p.57, Oxford University Press
“Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.”

Source : Isabelle Holland (1985). “A Death at St. Anselm's”, Fawcett Books
“I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.”
“It's wonderful to work for a company that gives so much back to its communities, especially to our children. Donations are only one way we support our communities. Our team members also volunteer their time and energies to a number of different local groups, including this aquarium. We form partnerships with these organizations because we feel we can accomplish more together than if we were each working on our own.”
“Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.”
“As the palm-tree standeth so straight and so tall, The more the hail beats, and the more the rains fall.”
“Every little movement has a meaning of its own,”

Source : Tony Sarg, Jonathan Adler (2007). “Up & down New York”, Universe Pub

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