Melting Quotes

• I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Delirium, Ecstasy, Feels

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• As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to 'do what the people want,' instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically.

  Antonin Scalia

  Law, Long, People

  "'Get over it': Justice Scalia's most memorable quotes" by Bill Mears, www.foxnews.com. February 15, 2016.

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  Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

  Sharon M. Draper

  Hands, Different, Snowflake

  Sharon M. Draper (2012). “Out of My Mind”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• Persuade your fellow citizens it's a good idea and pass a law. That's what democracy is all about. It's not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society.

  Antonin Scalia

  Court Judges, Law, Ideas

  "Scalia: Women Don’t Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2011.

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• Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

  Tom Wolfe

  Stones, Miami, Pot

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• On this day, when we're celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage - to impose on our fellow citizens only the restrictions that are there in the Constitution, not invent new ones, not to invent the right because it's a good idea.

  Antonin Scalia

  Ideas, Scary, Faithful

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• Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.

  Antonin Scalia

  Christian, Scary, World

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• It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

  Antonin Scalia

  Constitution, Illusion, Court Justice

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.58, Regnery Publishing

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• In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.

  Antonin Scalia

  Eye, Race, Government

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.47, Regnery Publishing

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• For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues are essential.

  Antonin Scalia

  Christian, Order, Essentials

  "At Houston lecture, Scalia explores Christian virtues and economic systems". www.houstonchronicle.com. September 6, 2013.

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• Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

  Rumi

  Snow, Sufi, Melting Snow

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.50, Shambhala Publications

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• Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wise, Men, Thinking

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• My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths.

  Rima Fakih

  Wonderful, My Family, Pot

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• To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.

  Antonin Scalia

  Sex, Decision, Gay Marriage

  "Who is Antonin Scalia and why is he out of touch with changing social views?" by Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2015.

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• [T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.

  Antonin Scalia

  Pride, Army, Gun

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• The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men are endowed by their Creator.'

  Antonin Scalia

  Children, Men, Rights

  "Troxel v. Granville". "A Year at the Supreme Court". Book by Neal Devins and Davison M. Douglas, 2004.

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• The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Rights, Gay Marriage, Promise

  Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584, 192 L. Ed. 2d 609, footnote #22, June 26, 2015.

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• Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.

  Antonin Scalia

  Yield, Government, Usual

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.233, Regnery Publishing

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• If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong.

  Antonin Scalia

  Court Judges, Judging, Faithful

  Speech at Chapman Law School, August 2005.

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• If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: 'The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,' I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.

  Antonin Scalia

  Rights, Fortune Cookie, Gay Marriage

  "This Scalia Zinger Is the Funniest Footnote to Come Out of the Supreme Court This Term" by Shane Ferro, www.businessinsider.com. June 26, 2015.

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• This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?

  Antonin Scalia

  Pain, Causes, Execution

  "Lethal Injection Revisited" by Christopher Brauchli, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to change with society, like a living organism, or it will become brittle and break. But you would have to be an idiot to believe that. The Constitution is not a living organism; it is a legal document. It says something and doesn't say other things.

  Antonin Scalia

  Believe, Years, Constitution

  "Scalia Raps 'Living Constitution'". www.cbsnews.com. February 14, 2006.

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• You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My god! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the devil! It's in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the devil! Most of mankind has believed in the devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the devil.

  Antonin Scalia

  Jesus, Believe, Mean

  Interview with Jennifer Senior, nymag.com. October 6, 2013.

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• We do Him [God] honor in our pledge of allegiance, in all our public ceremonies. There's nothing wrong with that. It is in the best of American traditions, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. I think we have to fight that tendency of the secularists to impose it on all of us through the Constitution.

  Antonin Scalia

  Fighting, Thinking, Honor

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