#elves

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#cannot #chaos #compulsion #ethical #invent

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families. ↗

— George Pataki

#brighter #dream #economic #economic future #families

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. ↗

— George Pataki

#government #longer #people #responsibility #take

In Arizona we have passed laws to free our people so that they can defend themselves and their loved ones. You cannot predict where evil will raise its head, but you can be prepared for it. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#be prepared #cannot #defend #evil #free

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#cannot #emptiness #empty #hear #hearts

This new understanding of processes on Europa would not have been possible without the foundation of the last 20 years of observations over Earth's ice sheets and floating ice shelves. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#earth #floating #foundation #ice #last

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#confirms #course #democracies #different #handicap

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#against #baby #biological #blind #desperate

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#clash #colors #just #others #reconcile

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. ↗

— Alice Munro

#keep #memory #other #our #ourselves