#def

It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#be true #deficit #federal #going #reduces

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#bad #being #bird #cannot #decent

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#afflictions #anxieties #christ #defect #faith

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#defining #defining moment #make #mark #me

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#defined #entirely #i #know #me

Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal. ↗

— Gilbert Newton Lewis

#base #before #constituent #definition #general

But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#course #definite #destined #external #greatly

While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#being #blood #defense #elsewhere #families

If I don't feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn't box any more. ↗

— Lennox Lewis

#box #definitely #did #feel #hunger

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#greatest #mankind #sickness