#cal

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. ↗

— Heywood Broun

#objection #refuge #scoundrel #technical

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#care #change #community #contend #evangelical

I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance. ↗

— James Chanos

#between #big #big difference #difference #falls

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#basically #been #being #chocolate #consumed

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#being #coming #course #human #human being

Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#i #make #men #more #sensitive

If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present. ↗

— Claus von Stauffenberg

#been #could #general #had #high

There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#progress #scientific #state #technical #which

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#calm #even #ought #pursuit #things

If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of specifically human patterns of behaviour. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

#behaviour #biological #evidence #evolution #human