#con

The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems. ↗

— Michael Fish

#influence #jet #over #stream #systems

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#considered #different #different things #knowledge #things

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#capital #capital punishment #controversy #distressing #long

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed. ↗

— John Fiske

#constructed #conventions #discursive #empirical #fidelity

We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence. ↗

— John Fiske

#constructive #endure #foundation #god #harmonize

So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#american #bush #control #crowd #day

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#come #conditions #deeper #defeat #essentially

There are no second acts in American lives. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#american #american lives #lives #second

One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#conspiracy #first #first things #found #investigation

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#attention #convert #converts #desire #economic