#ending

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. ↗

— Michael Ledeen

#civilization #nation #pretending

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#bending #cracked #easily #most #notice

When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back. ↗

— Mike Lee

#back #been #certain #certain level #country

If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home. ↗

— James Levine

#day #doing #factor #fathers #home

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#any #debt #debt limit #involve #levels

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#collective #each #economic #ensure #financial

Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#contribution #could #education #great #habits

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#good mood #mood #pretending #sometimes #thing

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#depending #different #each #i #members

Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#annually #dollars #energy #global #global warming