#end

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#chaos #control #engendered #holds #more

Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs. ↗

— John Thune

#dakota #dependence #energy #energy security #ethanol

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat. ↗

— Bill Veeck

#answer #asked #bat #before #had

To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#everglades #friend #necessarily #out #spend

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#censor #code #literature #merely #moral

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#ankle #chain #end #fastened #fellow

I spend a lot of time with my characters. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#i #lot #spend #time

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends. ↗

— Rita Dove

#could #ends #exciting #exciting thing #father

I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#dynamite #explain #friends #fun #his

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#fear #nothing #peace #suppressed #war