#den

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#automatic #cannot #conquered #count #deny

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#everybody #evident #explain #glaringly #had

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#forbidden #individual #law #matter #mob

I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date. ↗

— James Randi

#because #claims #confirming #date #ever

Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help. ↗

— Marion Ross

#come #denial #forward #get #getting

The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#combined #cuts #destroying #domestic #fabric

Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its aftermath because of the President's refusal to heed the calls of governors for help in repairing the infrastructure in their states. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#because #been #calls #could #die

We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#actions #amongst #ballot #ballot box #box

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision. ↗

— Jeanette Rankin

#cannot #changed #crises #crisis #decides

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#accident #also #between #discoverable #except