#ali

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#become #begin #change #culture #cultures

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#architecture #exceptional #radiated #vitality

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse. ↗

— Julius Erving

#effort #else #faced #find #going

You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside. ↗

— Julius Erving

#deal #downside #good #got #know

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement. ↗

— Robert Bork

#differing #educational #egalitarian #inevitably #levels

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept. ↗

— Robert Bork

#commands #concept #fashion #intellectual #law

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly. ↗

— Anna Eshoo

#country #drill #folly #i #i think

I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition. ↗

— Anna Eshoo

#competition #free #free market #had #i

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. ↗

— Frank Borman

#capitalism #christianity #hell #like #without

Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.' ↗

— Alex Borstein

#come #developing #dig #doing #emulate