#ect

So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#back #burn #choice #clear #concrete

Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#because #become #depressed #dominated #emotions

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#directly #hierarchy #intervention #much #need

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family. ↗

— John Boehner

#american #american family #believe #family #i

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#different #doing #expecting #insanity #over

I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled. ↗

— Paul M. Glaser

#apart #been #could #directing #few

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#daily life #deep #exists #knows #life

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#cease #commence #death #growth #intellectual

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#characterize #confusion #ends #means #our

No, let's make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that we have no choice but to win it. As difficult as it is. ↗

— John Boehner

#difficult #helping #here #home #important