A. E. Dick Howard quote: "Because the issues debated at the convention were very contentious and very divisive, it's easy to imagine that people of lesser stature could have foundered, that the whole enterprise might have died."

In many ways, the U.S. Supreme Court remains the paradigm.
A. E. DICK HOWARD

We're talking about a constitution that is in its third century. That's really quite remarkable amon...
A. E. DICK HOWARD

Ideology aside, it's going to be difficult to run the court any better than he did. We will look bac...
A.E. DICK HOWARD

They are not often reversed. I think that's partly because the 4th Circuit is relatively conservativ...
A.E. DICK HOWARD

Each ruling may be correct. But it seems to me that the cumulative effect of these decisions makes i...
A.E. DICK HOWARD

They are willing to test the boundaries of present U.S. Supreme Court doctrine.
A.E. DICK HOWARD

This court certainly doesn't lack self-confidence. It's a conservative activism for the most part, b...
A.E. DICK HOWARD

It can't be that simple. Rarely is constitutional language that open and shut.
A.E. DICK HOWARD

I think the document has to be read from a commonsense perspective. The constitution is not a suicid...
A.E. DICK HOWARD

My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands...
ROBERT E. HOWARD

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!
ROBERT E. HOWARD

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumsta...
ROBERT E. HOWARD

No one is entitled to the truth.
E. HOWARD HUNT

All fled--all done, so lift me on the pyre; The feast is over, and the lamps expire.
ROBERT E. HOWARD

People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can ...
HOWARD E. WASDIN

We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than th...
E. HOWARD HUNT

If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?
HOWARD E. KOCH

Uneasy lies the head that craves the crown.
HOWARD E. KOCH

Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the ...
ROBERT E. HOWARD

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?
I, who was born in a naked la...
ROBERT E. HOWARD

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without havi...
ROBERT E. HOWARD

Seal Team Six is a different unit than the rest of the SEAL teams inasmuch as they concentrate prima...
HOWARD E. WASDIN

The heart and soul of a Navy SEAL is somebody who's committed to their country and committed to ...
HOWARD E. WASDIN

MUSINGS

The little poets sing of little things:
Hope, cheer, and f...
ROBERT E. HOWARD

I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not ...
ROBERT E. HOWARD

May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal ...
E. HOWARD HUNT

I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the ...
E. HOWARD HUNT

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at the...
HOWARD E. KOCH

I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles g...
HOWARD E. WASDIN

How can I wear the harness of toil
And sweat at the daily round,
While in my soul forever<...
ROBERT E. HOWARD

I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.
ROBERT E. HOWARD

The guy who finally pulled the trigger on Osama bin Laden is not patting himself on the back. He'...
HOWARD E. WASDIN

We ought not to forget that the whole Church, quite as much as any part of it, exists for the sole r...
HOWARD A. JOHNSON

[Christians], at their best, know that often they don't know. They do not have all the answers. They...
HOWARD A. JOHNSON

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
A. E. WAITE

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuck...
A. E. HOUSMAN

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divinat...
A. E. WAITE

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business ...
A. E. WAITE

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at ...
A. E. WAITE

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with act...
A. E. WAITE

We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
A. E. WAITE

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws f...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to...
A. E. HOUSMAN

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
A. E. HOUSMAN

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, i...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect u...
A. E. HOUSMAN

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sha...
A. E. HOUSMAN

We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of '...
A. E. HOTCHNER

When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers...
A. E. HOTCHNER

Inward rest... gives an air of leisure to [Christ's] crowded life: above all, there is in this Man a...
A. E. WHITHAM

And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cun...
A. E. HOUSMAN

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, an...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
A. E. HOUSMAN

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
A. E. HOUSMAN

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and...
A. E. WAITE

Mass production is for the masses.
E. A. FILENE

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and canno...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Who made the world I cannot tell;
'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
My hand, though now my k...
A. E. HOUSMAN

And then the clock collected in the tower / Its strength and struck.
A. E. HOUSMAN

And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.
A. E. HOUSMAN

The fairies break their dances / And leave the printed lawn.
A. E. HOUSMAN

White in the moon the long road lies.
A. E. HOUSMAN

We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plan...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Now, of my threescore years and ten, / Twenty will not come again.
A. E. HOUSMAN

But men at whiles are sober / And think by fits and starts, / And if they think, they fasten / Their...
A. E. HOUSMAN

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, / The lads that will die in their glory and...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Lovers lying two by two / Ask not whom they sleep beside, / And the bridegroom all night through / N...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Made of earth and sea / His overcoat for ever, / And wears the turning globe.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Think no more; 'tis only thinking / Lays lads underground.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Into my heart an air that kills / From yon far country blows: / What are those blue remembered hills...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Oh, when I was in love with you, / Then I was clean and brave.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Here of a Sunday morning / My love and I would lie, / And see the coloured counties, / And hear the ...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough.
A. E. HOUSMAN

The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; / He has devoured the infant child. / The infant child is not awa...
A. E. HOUSMAN

The rainy Pleiads wester, / Orion plunges prone, / The stroke of midnight ceases, / And I lie down a...
A. E. HOUSMAN

The goal stands up, the keeper / Stands up to keep the goal.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. HOUSMAN

About the woodlands I will go / To see the cherry hung with snow.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Tomorrow, more's the pity, / Away we both must hie, To air the ditty / and to earth I.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Cambridge has seen many strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk, it has seen Porson sober. I am...
A. E. HOUSMAN

No change, though you lie under / The land you used to plough.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Mithridates, he died old.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; / Breath's a ware that will not keep. / Up, lad; when the jour...
A. E. HOUSMAN

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way...
A. E. VAN VOGT

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met anot...
A. E. VAN VOGT

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launch...
A. E. VAN VOGT

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
A. E. VAN VOGT

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of...
A. E. VAN VOGT

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what...
A. E. VAN VOGT

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I...
A. E. VAN VOGT

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
A. E. VAN VOGT

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
A. E. VAN VOGT

Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights...
A. E. VAN VOGT

In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I late...
A. E. VAN VOGT

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book;...
A. E. VAN VOGT

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
A. E. VAN VOGT

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
A. E. VAN VOGT

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial r...
E. T. A. HOFFMANN

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
A. E. VAN VOGT

I wrote what interested me; and my method of working out my story through the dream process probably...
A. E. VAN VOGT

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I...
A. E. VAN VOGT

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
A. E. VAN VOGT

I did not go along with the new theories that Hubbard was offering. They had a religious aspect and ...
A. E. VAN VOGT

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and...
A. E. VAN VOGT

As a craftsman, I made my living at writing from the moment I crossed the line at age 20, and sold m...
A. E. VAN VOGT

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be intere...
A. E. VAN VOGT

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
E. T. A. HOFFMANN

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tr...
E. T. A. HOFFMANN

You are not meant to serve time. Time is meant to serve you. Become the master of your now
E'YEN A. GARDNER

To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.
E'YEN A. GARDNER

The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not t...
E'YEN A. GARDNER

Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion.
E'YEN A. GARDNER

Life is simple, just be yourself.
E'YEN A. GARDNER

Come out of hiding, don't be afraid to be yourself.
E'YEN A. GARDNER

When we know Love, fear has no value in our presence. There is no pressure to perform and mask our h...
E'YEN A. GARDNER

However, if we don’t confront the seed of lies, it gives place for them to take root in us and we ...
E'YEN A. GARDNER

If there is no door to your dream, create one.
E'YEN A. GARDNER

Patience is learned through waiting
E'YEN A. GARDNER

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS

Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS

next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS

he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS

and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS

Because the issues debated at the convention were very contentious and very divisive, it's easy to imagine that people of lesser stature could have foundered, that the whole enterprise might have died.

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