#fr

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#connection #friendship #goethe #inspirational #love

In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#almost #companies #consistently #drill #environmentally

When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it for you a while so you can shut your eyes and sleep peaceful. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#friendship

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition. ↗

— John O'Donohue

#love #friendship

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#friendship

Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough. ↗

— Elif Shafak

#friendship

A free public broadcast license is a privilege. ↗

— Bart Gordon

#free #license #privilege #public

If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels. ↗

— Bart Gordon

#country #dependency #dispense #distribute #foreign

...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#fragility #internet-addiction #modern-values #modernity #modernity-is-a-sickness

I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too. ↗

— Mike Gordon

#boost #change #frequency #goes #helped