#ding

There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#being #combination #coming #could #dumb

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. ↗

— George Soros

#condition #correct #failing #human #human condition

Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually. ↗

— George Soros

#billions #costs #dollars #enforcement #incarceration

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#how #misleading #misused #often #thoughts

Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK. ↗

— David Soul

#bending #biggest #biggest problem #down #exercise

It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything. ↗

— Terry Southern

#credit #directors #everything #film #including

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#business #cannot #choose #decide #difference

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.' ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#demanding #evidence #ketchup #like #makes

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#anything #creates #favor #i #israel

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#anything #away #bar #before #book