#ang

I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#doing #drinking #fact #going #hang

The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange between Gordon Brown and David Cameron about percentages that sounds like an argument between different book-keepers. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#approach #arbitrary #argument #based #between

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. ↗

— Cleopatra

#despise #events #strange #terrible #welcome

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home. ↗

— John Cleveland

#cain #changed #confine #doom #forced

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#clinton #first #hanging #her #hillary

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. ↗

— Lucille Clifton

#language #life #matter #poetry

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#anger #black-feminism #feminism #guilt #oppression

The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country so that we have a reasoned and thoughtful approach and that the American public buys into it. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#american public #approach #big #bring #buys

The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#becomes #change #commonplace #communications #concern

People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the "text" in literary terms. ↗

— Tony Conrad

#called #cultural #formal #forms #full