The habit of obscurity is partly caused by a settled disinclination among public servants to give a definite refusal even where assent is out of the question; or to convey a vigorous rebuke even where, in private correspondence, any person with self-respect would feel bound to do so.
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The question is - and this is what Barack Obama didn't want to answer - is that human life a person under the Constitution? And Barack Obama says "no". Well if that person - human life is not a person - then I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say, "we're going to decide who are people and who are not people".
Rick Santorum
How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.
Albert Einstein