#ck

For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#amoral #ancient #both #earth #fairly

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#banker #bus #containing #crime #fare

So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#back #burn #choice #clear #concrete

We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#address #demand #develop #further #future

Well, any good comeback needs some true believers. ↗

— John Boehner

#believers #comeback #good #needs #some

And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility. ↗

— John Boehner

#back #celebrate #constitution #earned #economic

It's easy to kick somebody when they're down. George W. Bush has dealt with more difficult issues than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. And I've told my colleagues it's time that we go stand up for the president. ↗

— John Boehner

#bush #colleagues #dealt #difficult #down

But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government. ↗

— John Boehner

#american #american people #checking #costly #drive

I don't think our music has much to do with math rock. ↗

— Ian Williams

#math #much #music #our #our music

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#because #beyond #domain #exact #factors