#dam

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#aesthetic #allows #doctrine #doubt #doubts

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#damned #getting #hear #i #i am

I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#damaged #destructive #edge #female #find

Damnation seize my soul if I give your quarters, or take any from you. ↗

— Edward Teach

#damnation #give #i #my soul #quarters

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#damn #doubts #fool #god #i

I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#attention #basics #college #concentrate #courses

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#being #coach #conductor #director #editor

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater. ↗

— Les Aspin

#damage #done #forces #iraqi #iraqi forces

We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be. ↗

— John Astin

#believe #better #better off #change #damaged

Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#bringing #contempt #country #democratic #fundamentalists