#cal

Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then? ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#any #athletes #been #close #come

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#complete #design #drawn #furniture #i

I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#basically #been #complainer #complaint #grounds

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future. ↗

— Max Planck

#assume #continue #exist #existed #future

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. ↗

— Plato

#call #come #end #hands #humanity

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. ↗

— Plato

#burden #calm #disposition #equally #feel

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier. ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#feat #i #performed #russian #scale

It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#aspects #basic #control #cultural #focusing

I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world. ↗

— John Podesta

#effective #i #i think #ideas #order

If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas. ↗

— John Podesta

#ask #delay #did #house #lock