#ali

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#force #inestimable #living #practical #sense

Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#american cinema #cinema #did #disappears #even

I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead. ↗

— Jewel

#dead #feel #half #i #i feel

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#disappeared #in the past #learning #literature #much

Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#chilling #dinner #family #murder #family

The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral. ↗

— David Letterman

#big #confusing #dead #debate #funeral

The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge. ↗

— Edward Levi

#accessibility #alive #along #broad #fields

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients. ↗

— Carl Levin

#cannot #damage #escape #even #hospitals

It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably. ↗

— Carl Levin

#comfortably #compensated #continue #duties #enable

It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge. ↗

— James Levine

#collective #communication #day #emerge #every