#fr

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#basic #colleagues #constitution #democracy #earth

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#anxiety #constant #find #free #long

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency. ↗

— James H. Douglas

#freedom #hard #independence #land #our

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#father #friends #i #italians #know

Friends are hard to find. In a lifetime you only get a few. And when you find them, you always know them by sight and heart alone, you always grow a little bit taller in your soul, and you know you have been blessed just to know them. ↗

— Ashley Rice

#friendship #i-am-privlidged #love #my-friends #beauty

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#better #better place #community #each #everybody

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? ↗

— Mary Douglas

#believe #encouraged #frustration #grand #jealousy

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#eye #find #friend #him #keep

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#crops #depreciate #favor #freedom #ground

I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time. ↗

— Geoff Downes

#band #be different #brand #different #different people