#con

On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#am #being #change #consciousness #contribution

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#astronaut #aviator #because #career #considered

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#ago #considered #royalty #size #were

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#contract #else #having #make #mistakes

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap. ↗

— Marc Maron

#condition #east #get #israel #jerusalem

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#changes #chaos #condition #course #indefinitely

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#considered #contradictory #democracy #equality #exclusive

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#being #consists #idea #make #out

Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs. ↗

— Kamisese Mara

#business #business community #citizenry #community #confidence

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#learned #meaning #meaning of #once #read