#cons

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way. ↗

— Aaron Allston

#fingernails #go #hanging #largely #luck

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#circles #clifford #considered #ever #greatest

It's not merely that conservatives are better at selling their product, or that they happen to have an easier-and undoubtedly simpler-ideological product to sell. It's that they know what they are selling. Liberals in general and Obama in particular cannot say the same. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#cannot #conservatives #general #happen #know

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#approaching #argued #assassinations #centuries #consensus

The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#campaign #catastrophic #consequences #could #deception

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#cannot #conservatives #control #debate #empowers

I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#i #myself #traitor

I have been thinking ... that the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies… ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#social-constraints #nature

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't. ↗

— Tori Amos

#creative #else #everybody #like #own

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#common #consciousness #ground #into #musician