#amp

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom. ↗

— Tim Allen

#best #dad #example #friends #friendship

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain? ↗

— Aaron Allston

#god #hack #server #tampered #vatican

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#better #bill #bill gates #billionaires #carnegie

Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#cut #cutting #dictatorships #down #expedient

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty. ↗

— David Amram

#became #culture #egalitarian #entire #entire lives

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#borders #business #corresponding #dramatic #eating

As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns. ↗

— Mary Antin

#burned #carry #delighted #did #father

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#always #bears #cease #equal #genius

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#been #deal #dealing #elements #entropy

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#days #encampment #excessively #fatigued #horses