#disc

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#discard #grown-up #his #ideals #learns

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#ambitious #contract #covering #devious #discovery

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#discuss #elephant #race #room #still

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character. ↗

— Dale Turner

#admit #amends #character #discovered #error

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#called #delight #depth #discover #ecstasy

It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise. ↗

— Craig L. Thomas

#also #anything #being #budget #cutting

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure. ↗

— David Viscott

#because #cure #discover #disease #evils

Second issue is the rapidly accelerating increase in the number of vulnerabilities that get discovered every day. And, equally importantly, is the shortening of time between the discovery of the vulnerability and the release of an exploit. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#day #discovered #discovery #equally #every

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence. ↗

— Voltaire

#existence #find #god #his #i

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#between #connection #dangerous #disconcerting #funny