#ata

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#fatalism #like #never #party #passive

It is not an overstatement to say that Obamacare was the single most important catalyst leading to the tea party movement. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#important #leading #most #movement #obamacare

That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#ago #assistance #case #catastrophe #couple

Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#american jobs #data #debate #globalization #jobs

In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits. ↗

— Eric Liu

#also #catalog #convey #duties #end

Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#country #deep #deep down #down #feeling

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar. ↗

— Lee Loevinger

#beat #caviar #eggs #fatal #futile

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#better #catastrophes #century #cnn #consequence

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan. ↗

— Courtney Love

#bob #bob dylan #catalogue #compete #dylan

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession. ↗

— Martin Luther

#burden #choose #contend #god #goes