#def

Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#always #bent #care #country #defence

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution. ↗

— Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#against #amending #any #believe #constitution

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#despair #facade #formula #give #must

Men are more prone to cheating, definitely. ↗

— Blu Cantrell

#definitely #men #more #prone

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#deeper #defined #does #foreground #important

What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price. ↗

— James Chanos

#asset #bubble #building #buy #cash

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#bigot #call #definite #dogma #end

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#defend #men #might #nothing #pardonable

Truth cannot be defeated. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#defeated #truth

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action. ↗