#cons

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#conscience #i #i think #inferior #leave

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

#constantly #day #get #how #i

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#beings #change #computer #concentrate #construction

Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best. ↗

— Takeru Kobayashi

#age #am #athletes #because #best

They convinced our mothers that if a food item came in a bottle -- or a can or a box or a cellophane bag -- then it was somehow better for you than when it came to you free of charge via Mother Nature....An entire generation of us were introduced in our very first week to the concept that phony was better than real, that something manufactured was better than something that was right there in the room. (Later in life, this explained the popularity of the fast food breakfast burrito, neocons, Kardashians, and why we think reading this book on a tiny screen with only three minutes of battery life left is enjoyable. ↗

— Michael Moore

#breastfeeding #fast-food #neocons #food

I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#came #chosen #constitutional #country #distinction

I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#desires #does #domestic #his #honest

If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#anything #been #conscience #country #direction

The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#common #constitution #country #deprive #deprived

You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#consequences #earth #must #position #power