#do

Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments. ↗

— Bob Goodlatte

#businesses #cities #citizens #developments #farms

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck. ↗

— Bob Goodlatte

#chosen #each #given #lottery #luck

I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#been #do you know #had #i #knew

It takes courage to live, yes, but it takes true bravery to stand your ground in a world aligned against you. ↗

— Jake Bonsignore

#wisdom #courage

The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don't think that uncertainty over what the tax rate will be for someone that makes a million dollars a year has that big an impact on the economic growth rate in the country. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#country #cuts #data #does #dollars

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#above #anybody #design #does #human

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it. ↗

— Dexter Gordon

#beautiful word #because #call #doing #i

My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs. ↗

— Gale Gordon

#dogs #going #i #i love #love

I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out. ↗

— John Brown Gordon

#down #face #fifth #i #me

...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#fragility #internet-addiction #modern-values #modernity #modernity-is-a-sickness