#ak

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#answer #chain #circumstances #complicated #find

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#avoid #confidence #desire #experimental #goes

The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#could #everything #fellow #fellow citizens #happen

The reason that the unions and the other stakeholders have not cut a deal with the automakers is because they believe the federal government is going to bail them out. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#because #believe #cut #deal #federal

We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#control #country #federal #federal government #gallon

It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set. ↗

— Bill Paxton

#front #hundred #liberating #lovemaking #movie

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions. ↗

— James Payn

#case #evil #folks #great #hope

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#different #does #man #rather #speak

It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers. ↗

— James Payn

#allowances #am #apt #aware #certain

Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards. ↗

— James Payn

#country #establishment #fail #must #nor