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“The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them.”

Want Matter Might Certain Liberty Democracy Conditions Shapes Essence Majority Fervent Constitutionalism

Book:With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002

Source: With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002

“At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don't look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth.”

Looks Certain Lines Like You Shapes Mouths Features Fatigue

Author:Anjelica Huston

“Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geometric shapes can affect matter around them. It's simply because when a human looks at a shape, they instantly receive energy from their brain.”

Humans Looks Matter Certain Energy Brain Shapes Scientist Patterns Experiments Geometric Geometric Shapes

Author:Tom DeLonge

“At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions, these changing features fix a precise quality onto a book's definition. I judge a book by its cover; I judge a book by its shape.”

Way Looks Book Different Certain Quality Fashion Judging Shapes Definitions Features Precise Different Place Different Times Judging A Book By Its Cover

Author:Alberto Manguel

“I think when a man first discovers that two and two is four, there is 'beauty' in that; and we can see why. But if people stand and look at the moon and one says 'I think it's just beautiful tonight' and the other says 'The moon makes me feel awful' we are both 'clear'. A geometric shape - we know why we like it; and an unreasonable shape; it has a certain mystery that we recognize as real; but it is difficult to put these things in an objective way.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men Way Feels Firsts Looks Two Real Beautiful Certain Difficult Clear Four Mystery Shapes Moon Objectives Awful Tonight Unreasonable Geometric Geometric Shapes

Author:William Baziotes

“A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.”

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“You have to be in good shape, basically. And then, you have to have a certain craziness, if you're going to do some of the action things.”

Ifs Action Certain Shapes Craziness

Author:Antonio Banderas

“It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions.”

Soul Certain Turns Simple Opinion Expression Development Habit Shapes Assuming Affection Impression Features Habitual Countenance Physiognomy

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.”

Certain Arms Shapes Faults Sleeves Shortcomings

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“We humans have had from time unknown the compulsion to name things and thus to be able to deal with them. The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. And in ancient thought the name itself has power, so that to know someone's name is to have a certain power over him. And in some societies, as you know, there was a public name and a real or secret name, which would not be revealed to others.”

Knows Giving Humans Real Able Certain Names Deals Secret Attitude Shapes Ancient Compulsion

Book:Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

Source: Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

“I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be made just by pointing at something and saying, "That's a poem".”

Thinking Wells Made Hands Certain Shapes Creating Pointing Noticing

Author:Matthea Harvey

“In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the baby's crib. In hospitals we do not take the food trolleys right through the operating chamber, and we rarely have the recreation room next to the convalescent room. We sort out the functions. We have to sort out the functions of the city and the streams of traffic and re-create arterial systems that allow us to breathe ... the shape, pattern and sense of community which you expect if it were a home.”

“The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.”

Source: Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness

“Once you introduce the issue to young people and suggest to them that they have the ability to vote with their forks, either by positively going for certain kinds of foods or rejecting other kinds of foods, they realize that this is a responsibility and an opportunity to shape the world a little bit by their own choices.”

People World Kind Littles Young Certain Choices Opportunity Bits Realizing Ability Responsibility Issues Shapes Little Bit Vote Introducing Positively Forks Rejecting

Author:Michael Pollan

“People can say whatever they want about the sport of bodybuilding, but to get prepared to do a contest or even think about doing a contest, or even to get into decent shape, it requires a certain amount of discipline, and it comes from taking a new year's resolution to a lifestyle.”

People Thinking Want Years Certain Sports Amount Discipline Shapes Prepared Lifestyle Decent Resolution New Year Contests Bodybuilding New Year's Resolutions

Author:John Cena