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“Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as “our brothers' keepers,” possessed of one of the oldest and possibly one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting of instincts. It will not let us go.”
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
“I had long ago learned, sometimes to my sorrow, that Scottish piety is accompanied by a complete foreknowledge of sin. That's what we mean by original sin—we don't have to do it to know about it.”
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
“Legislative blocks are not always simply obstacles to be overcome.”
― War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority
― War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority
“Development” and “evolution”—words of such importance to us—would have meant little in the timeless culture of Sumer, where everything that was—their city, their fields, their herds, their plows—had always been.”
― The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
― The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
“Lincoln described the relation between the Declaration and the Constitution as the relationship between "an apple of gold" and "the picture," or frame, of silver. The Declaration is the golden apple, and the Constitution the silver frame around it that holds it in place and provides the structure. In the first we may find the purposes of the American republic. In the second we may find its method of operation.”
― The U.S. Constitution: A Reader
― The U.S. Constitution: A Reader
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