#ding

We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class. ↗

— Cory Booker

#bedrock #choose #class #economic #empowered

We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending. ↗

— Cory Booker

#also #avarice #calls #common #common sense

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#astonishing #beheld #below #commanding #delight

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#behind #building #centuries #coordinated #countries

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#building #come #theory #think #through

When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#because #come #find #fought #function

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse. ↗

— Ralph Erskine

#buildings #ease #human #human relations #improve

But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them. ↗

— Julius Erving

#affluent #because #choosing #chosen #cognizant

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#decent #decent standard #depends #destiny #living

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#civil #intellectual #more #reading #resigned