#dom

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#comes #late #merely #never #often

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#administration #capitol #chairman #committee #concerns

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.' ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#chance #creative #development #emergence #experience

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve. ↗

— Richard G. Scott

#efforts #enjoy #freedom #heroic #preserve

I'm not looking to be dominating all the media outlets ... to talk about any issue just to be on TV, I'm not your guy. I'm not going to be 'the black Republican'. I'm going to be a Republican who happens to be black who will talk about issues that I'm passionate about that are specific to the agenda that I want to accomplish. ↗

— Tim Scott

#accomplish #agenda #any #black #dominating

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#be happy #forever #good #great #happiness

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#appetite #color #does #firmness #itself

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#be thankful #being #benefits #command #earth

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean. ↗

— William H. Seward

#claimed #constitution #domain #establishment #even

I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#american #appeared #cambridge #england #every