#diction

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide. ↗

— Bob Filner

#activity #cities #estimated #gang #had

Good morning is a contradiction of terms. ↗

— Jim Davis

#contradiction #good #good morning #terms

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#admire #anyone #himself #i #who

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#become #begins #continue #contradictions #find

Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize. ↗

— John Walters

#american #bigger #most #much #part

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#environmental #every #fossil #fossil fuels #fuels

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. ↗

— Simone Weil

#door #except #impossible #know #lie

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#nothing #propositions #say #show #they say

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit. ↗

— Judith Wright

#addictions #alluring #aspect #attain #cases

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ↗

— Steven Wright

#about #dictionary #everything #i #poem