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

  Tom Wolfe

  Stones, Miami, Pot

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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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• Oh Agnes, Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Reality, Soul

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.532

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• The morning steals upon the night,
  Melting the darkness.

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Night, Darkness

  William Shakespeare, Aaron Augustus MORGAN (1860). “The Mind of Shakspeare, as Exhibited in His Works. By the Rev. A. A. Morgan”, p.162

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• He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting ice-cream cone, bicycling along the river, laughing, talking, kissing, a sappy score drowning out the dialogue because the screenwriter had no idea what these two people might say to each other.

  Richard Russo

  Summer, Memories, Kissing

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Jul 31, 2016

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• Who, of men, can tell
  That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell
  To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail,
  The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale,
  The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones,
  The seed its harvest, or the lute its tones,
  Tones ravishment, or ravishment its sweet,
  If human souls did never kiss and greet?

  John Keats

  Sweet, Flower, Science

  'Endymion' (1818) bk. 1, l. 835

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• I love that New York City is a true melting pot.

  Stephanie Szostak

  New York, Cities, Pot

  "My New York: Stephanie Szostak". Interview with Lauren Valenti, www.elle.com. April 6, 2013.

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• The culture of chefs is a melting pot, and I always say this - if we could put all the heads of state around a table, each representing their food culture, and then each take one bite of the other's and pass it to the right, and then explain the ideals and culture around those bites, our world problems would be easier to solve.

  Robert Irvine

  Our World, Food Culture, Tables

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Probably more than anything else, the place that we really see the effects of the power of even the relatively mild temperature increases so far is in the melting of everything frozen on the planet.

  Bill McKibben

  Frozen, Temperature, Increase

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• I can't tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh forming a human 350 against the backdrop of the melting glaciers. This is not their fault, and yet they're stepping up to be part of the solution.

  Bill McKibben

  Buddhist, Moving, Email

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• Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.

  Andrea Gibson

  Love Is, Magic, Sometimes

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• I find it strange that there isn't more of a melting pot of language within the pop charts. I feel it becomes really two dimensional when everything's in English.

  Gwenno

  Two, Strange, Language

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When all the people covered in tattoos turn about 70 years old, they're going to look like a strange race of melting clowns.

  Dana Gould

  Tattoo, Race, Years

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• Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground, of the magnolia, and the Florida keys, and their warm sea breezes; of the fence-rail, and the cotton-tree, and the migrations of the rice-bird; of the breaking up of winter in Labrador, and the melting of the snow on the forks of the Missouri; and owe an accession of health to these reminiscences of luxuriant nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Reading, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Civil Disobedience & Other Essays - Premium Collection: 26 Political, Philosophical & Historical Essays: Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, The Landlord, Walking, Sir Walter Raleigh, Paradise (to be) Regained, Herald of Freedom, A Plea for Captain John Brown, The Highland Light, Dark Ages…”, p.79, e-artnow

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• She swallowed and looked down at the artichoke petals piled neatly on the side of her plate. Her center certainly felt like it was melting, growing soft and wet just from the rasp of Mr. O'Connor's voice. Why should a man already devilishly handsome also have a voice that could charm birds from the sky? It simply wasn't fair.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Men, Sky, Voice

  Elizabeth Hoyt (2011). “Scandalous Desires: Number 3 in series”, p.123, Hachette UK

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• And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hands, Faces, Sunny

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sea and Sardinia: Top Novelist Focus”, p.6, 谷月社

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• The plain fact is that there are no conclusions. If we must state a conclusion, it would be that many of the former conclusions of the nineteenth-century science on philosophical questions are once again in the melting-pot.

  James Jeans

  Philosophical, Science, Facts

  James Jeans, Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1981). “Physics and Philosophy”, p.216, Courier Corporation

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• [A]s previous studies have concluded, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are probably thickening rather than melting.

  Myron Ebell

  Ice, Study, Sheets

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• He gave me heaven and earth, and assumed I'd be satisfied; Actually I was too embarrassed to argue. The spiritual seekers are tired, two or three at each stage of the path. The rest who have given up never knew your address at all. There are so many in this gathering who wish the candle well. But if the being of the candle is melting, what can the sorrow-sharers do?

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Spiritual, Tired, Two

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• Britney Spears' album Blackout is one of the hottest-selling CDs in the country. We're in a bad place, people: The world is melting, we're at war, and Two and a Half Men is a huge hit.

  Chelsea Handler

  Country, War, Men

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• This is the equivalent of an “internal shower”. As the spring freshness born of the heavy rains and vast masses of melting snows on mountains in the hinterlands cause rivers to swell and rush turbulently onward to the sea, so too will your blood flow with renewed vigor as the direct result of your faithfully performing the Contrology exercises.

  Joseph Pilates

  Spring, Rain, Exercise

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• When we trust ourselves, ascents become descents, difficulties turn into easinesses, rocks transform into sands and swords into melting candles!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rocks, Ascent, Sand

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• I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing. The Chinese culture has survived for more than five thousand years in part because the Chinese have embraced the same language and culture. I hope I am wrong about this, and that the flame is still on beneath the great American melting pot. Americans need each other, and a house divided, no matter the color of its occupants, is still divided. And divided we all fall.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Fall, Flames, Color

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