#cade

Many young people strangely boast of being "motivated"; they re-request apprenticeships and permanent training. It's up to them to discover what they're being made to serve, just as their elders discovered, not without difficulty, the telos of the disciplines. The coils of a serpent are even more complex that the burrows of a molehill. ↗

— Stephen Graham

#motivational

I had a standing arrangement with God: I'd agree to believe in him—barely—so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#sleep

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish. ↗

— Daniel J. Bernstein

#i #perish #publish

This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision. ↗

— Osama bin Laden

#being #bush #clear #decades #envied

The Supreme Court told me that I should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less even though I didn't know about it for nearly two decades. ↗

— Lilly Ledbetter

#company #complaint #court #decades #decision

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made. ↗

— Siegfried Lenz

#balance #comes #decades #embarrassment #into

An estimated 2 million American women will be diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer this decade and screening could prevent up to 30% of these deaths for women over 40. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#american women #cancer #could #deaths #decade

A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#academic #account #cell #cell phone #children

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#competitors #decade #dramatic #dynamic #emerged

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#change #climate #climate change #decades #discourse