#emote

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#along #been #decent #evolution #freedom

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers. ↗

— Alan Clark

#awful #comes #day #death #demoted

If I see anything remotely like a telcom-run faster internet that you have to pay more to get preferential traffic on, I'm out folks. I've seen this story before, I ran an ISP back in the late 90s. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#back #before #faster #folks #get

People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in Africa, we're going to have to have healthy people in Africa. ↗

— William Foege

#beginning #diseases #economists #going #good

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#book #dear #i #idea #never

But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness. ↗

— Donald Judd

#art #art work #certain #certain degree #degree

If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with. ↗

— David E. Kelley

#emote #every #every day #friends #i

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness. ↗

— Henry Knox

#darkness #far #light #may #ostensible

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#attention #day #every #every day #founded

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#error #ignorance #less #nothing #preferable