#because

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it. ↗

— Leon Kass

#folly #into #just #just because #nations

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#answers #because #consideration #easy #educated

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#form #instrument #into #liberation #only

It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#art #attraction #because #being #brought

Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#begin #capacities #compensate #else #forever

There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#around #because #competitively #disadvantage #doing

I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else. ↗

— Sadie Frost

#anything #because #else #flat #i

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#begin #bicycles #brothers #business #caves

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#awful #because #before #book #concepts

I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#because #contamination #freud #i #i think