#cons

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization. ↗

— Ron Reagan

#also #cannot #cell #cell research #consistent

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. ↗

— Robert Redford

#because #conservatism #know #make #political

Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes. ↗

— John Redwood

#both #brought #closer #collect #consume

You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#ask #bloc #either #ethnicity #i

Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea. ↗

— Scott Reed

#being #brain #constantly #corresponding #corresponds

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes. ↗

— Charley Reese

#constitutional government #cure #every #except #government

I have been a Christian all my life, but it's impossible to be so deeply involved in these stories without it making you think again, and without it making you consciously aware of the people involved. ↗

— Della Reese

#aware #been #christian #consciously #deeply

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#considering #hard #harp #might #resist

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child? ↗

— Delmore Schwartz

#constraints #freedom #memory #dreams

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#beautiful #choice #cinema #consequences #cost