#ding

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. ↗

— Karl Popper

#ends #engineering #physical #piecemeal #province

The TV ads have been coming hot and heavy in Ohio. I think the Obama campaign has outspent the Romney campaign by two-to-one or three-to-one, depending on the analysis you look at. People are tired of the attacks already, and here we are in July. ↗

— Rob Portman

#already #analysis #attacks #been #campaign

I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#book #constant #doing #i #movies

We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies. ↗

— Janet Reno

#building #carry #disabilities #forward #international

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone. ↗

— Mark Twain

#criticism #jerk #reading #writing #want

From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance. ↗

— Mary C. Jones

#apparent #been #complete #completely #disturbance

I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform. ↗

— William McKinley

#i #i am #man #platform #standing

I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations. ↗

— Vaughn Monroe

#doing #i #imitations #kidding #knew

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one. ↗

— Jamie Kennedy

#instead #leading #leading man #like #man

If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section? ↗