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Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration. ↗

— Mike Rutherford

#balance #band #being #collaboration #compromise

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#virtue #virtue

See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#buy #dead #easy #eternal #field

We haven't done such a great job, so I don't know why God couldn't have started over somewhere else. I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#buy #coming #cover-up #done #else

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#businesspeople #days #did #door #else

It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I finally did, I dedicated myself to be the best pitcher I possibly could be, for as long as I possibly could be. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#best #could #dedicated #did #figure

When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn't that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#after #also #angels #because #best

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#declaration #founders #god #got #government

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#bizarre #caricature #course #dichotomy #does

Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation's economic problems. And I'm going to level with you: We don't have that much time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#economic #economic problems #going #i #lead