“As you become a powerful person, it becomes increasingly important to have periods of solitude. Take a weekend by yourself. Go up into the mountains or desert and check into a little cabin. Go by yourself.” LittlesPersonsImportantNaturePowerfulBuddhismPeriodsSolitudeMountainChecksDesertWeekendCabinsPowerful Person Author:Frederick Lenz
“Background checks, waiting periods, reports of transfers, and access to mental health records have not stopped the legal sale of firearms to legitimate buyers.” WaitingRecordsPeriodsMental HealthAccessBackgroundsChecksReportsTransfersFirearmsBuyersBackground Checks Author:Colleen Hanabusa
“It was during the eighteenth century - a period of boastful satisfaction with the nice balances within the English constitution - that Englishmen came to accept the Whig view of the utility of an armed citizenry. The armed citizen was not only affirmed to be protecting himself but, together with his fellows, provided the ultimate check on tyranny.” TogetherViewsAcceptingNiceCenturyBalanceCitizensPeriodsUltimateConstitutionFellowsSatisfactionTyrannyChecksUtilityEnglishmenSecond AmendmentCitizenryArmed Citizens Author:Joyce Lee Malcolm
“My work is very dear to me, and certainly I have had all the emotional highs and lows that go with trying to get it to an audience. But I do have some kind of detachment that seems somewhat unusual in my trade. I'm a writer who writes every day. I don't have a period of months where I can't get anything done and I wander around tearing my hair out. When I come back from a book tour, for instance, I might have one day where I sleep late and then check my e-mail, and then go for a walk, and then the next day I'm really itching to get back at writing a story.” WritingTryingKindI CanBookDoneStoriesSeemsMightNextSleepWalksAudienceEmotionalHairMonthsPeriodsOne DayLateLowsTradeDearChecksInstanceWanderGet BackUnusualMailNext DayDetachmentHighs And LowsItchingSleep Late Author:Daniel Handler
“We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands: we have a check upon two branches of the legislature, as each branch has upon the other two; the power I mean of electing at stated periods, one branch, which branch has the power of electing another. It becomes necessary to every subject then, to be in some degree a statesman: and to examine and judge for himself of the tendencies of political principles and measures.” MeanTwoImportantHandsPoliticalPrinciplesSubjectsJudgingPeriodsDegreesChecksTendenciesBranchesVotingStatesmenLegislature Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“Cameras are dangerous. With no waiting period or background check, any whack-job could just stroll into a Wal-Mart and walk out with a semi-automatic. Now, for years I've been pressing for stricter regulations on cameras, especially around our elected officials. Too many political lives have been cut short by some crazed shooter.” YearsHas BeensJobsPoliticalWaitingWalksCuttingDangerousPeriodsCamerasBackgroundsChecksOfficialsRegulationPolitical LifeElected OfficialsShooterBackground Checks Author:Stephen Colbert
“[Buckminster Fuller] started talking about it far enough afterwards, an audience that was far enough from when they - when the air flow and the Zephyr and these cars in the time period that were made by mainstream automakers. It was far enough in the future, far enough after that point that nobody really bothered to fact-check.” MadeEnoughFactsTalkingAudienceAirCarPeriodsFlowChecksMainstreamBotheredTime PeriodsBuckminster FullerZephyr Author:Jonathon Keats