#con

There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert. ↗

— Fred Frith

#concert #drawn #improvised #lot #music

In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#answer #bear #blasphemy #continued #could

New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#cannot #consider #day #directed #evidence

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#although #annual #assessment #connecticut #every

We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#competitive #democracy #economically #educated #get

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#australia #beyond #climate #coming #consumption

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#even #feeling #johnny #know #problem

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#concentrated #fact #find #fundamental #ideas

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#capitalism #color #considered #else #ethnicity

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#control #dent #facts #gun #gun control