#cs

The senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour. Hubert Humphrey, as quoted by Biden, p. 134 ↗

— Joe Biden

#life

Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour.” {Source: A Green Desert Father} ↗

— Richard Mc Sweeney

#esoteric #fashion #freedom-of-thought #ireland #irish-poet

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#focus #focusing-illusion #heuristics #importance #priorities

To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are members of their race. ↗

— Peter Singer

#life

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#constitution #depends #everything #laws #life

Out of a hundred people: Those who always know better- 52 Doubting every step- all the rest Glad to lend a hand if it doesn’t take too long- as high as 49 Always good, because they can’t be otherwise- 4 maybe 5 Able to admire without envy- 18 Living in constant fear of something or someone- 77 Capable of happiness- 20 something tops Harmless singly, savage in crowds- half at least Wise after the fact- just a couple more than wise before it Taking only things from life- 30 (I wish I were wrong) Righteous- 35, which is a lot Righteous and understanding- 3 Worthy of compassion- 99 Mortal- 100 out of 100 (Thus far this figure still remains unchanged.) ↗

— Wisława Szymborska

#statistics #wisdom #life

I’m a handyman. I work with my hand. I masturbate for a living. That’s right, I’m in politics. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#politics #life

The prevailing quality of life in America -- by any accepted methods of measuring -- was unarguably freer and more politically open under Nixon than it is today in this evil year of Our Lord 2002. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#politics #life

But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common... ↗

— Joe Biden

#life

In Paris and London he had seen nothing to make a return to life worth while; in Washington he saw plenty of reasons for staying dead. ↗

— Henry Adams

#washington #education