#ali

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#common #common good #good #individual #individual liberty

The Mozart sonata Dad picked out begins to play. When we hear the first note, we open the sacks and the ladybugs escape through the opening, taking flight. It's as if someone has dumped rubies from heaven. Soon they will land on the plants in search of bollworm eggs. But right now they are magic-red ribbons flying over our heads, weaving against the pink sky, dancing up there with Mozart. ↗

— Kimberly Willis Holt

#death #friendship #spirituality #vietnam-war #age

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. ↗

— William Osler

#alike #behave #bodies #conditions #disease

I lost boundaries as a child that I didn't even realize it and it wasn't talked about back then. You know, it was something you just buried and dealt with, and moved forward. What could you do about it? ↗

— Marie Osmond

#back #boundaries #buried #child #could

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. ↗

— L.P. Hartley

#past #reality #reality

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#amy #apart #choruses #favourite #find

I'm one of a generation brought up on television whose acting is more 'naturalistic', whereas with some of the older generation it's more heightened. But I think there's room for both styles. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#both #brought #generation #heightened #i

What if reality is nothing but some disease? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#reality

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#any #attack #been #conduct #down

We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this strong action against Iceland and its barbaric whaling industry... and we urge the President to take similar action against Japan and Norway as well! ↗

— Hayden Panettiere

#administration #against #barbaric #commend #his