#din

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind. ↗

— Geraldine Brooks

#insight #mind #reading #tastes #attitude

Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start. ↗

— Tim Johnson

#been #certain #commitment #country #fresh

I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt. ↗

— Tim Johnson

#any #billion #concerns #country #debt

Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#after #american #areas #asia #attempts

I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#encouragement #everybody #feel #feeling #finding

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#better #church #desire #ordinary #really

There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#choose #find #interesting #kinds #living

I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long. ↗

— Kiri Te Kanawa

#i #long #makes #process #recording

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#good #hold #holding #i #rather

Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#blue #cure #did #dysfunction #electoral