#cia

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. ↗

— George Santayana

#appreciate #bliss #domestic #patience #prefer

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. ↗

— George Santayana

#absolute #any #beauty #disguise #good

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. ↗

— George Santayana

#arrogant #blood #cocked #deep #delight

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#alone #become #beings #expression #human

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#every #expression #factors #form #imposed

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#ever #languages #reality #representing #same

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#i #imagine #involvement #kind #myself

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#aspects #commercial #cultural #deny #disastrous

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#american people #bush #concerned #condition #frighten

We are confronting a situation in which the Administration, in my view, is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#again #bankruptcy #confronting #crisis #manufacturing