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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. ↗

— John Updike

#either #government #madness #magnitude #organized

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges. ↗

— Fred Upton

#challenges #cost #exploding #fiscal #fiscal challenges

And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified. ↗

— Christo

#clarified #collages #detail #drawings #early

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity. ↗

— William Barclay

#determines #eternity #importance #life

The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven't got the permit yet. And, we are working at both of those, trying to get the permit. Therefore, we do not know which one will be realized next. ↗

— Christo

#both #called #colorado #get #got

Practice makes permanent. ↗

— Bobby Robson

#permanent #practice #practice makes

There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system. ↗

— Steven Chu

#determining #factor #families #only #other

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#behind #discussion #find #framework #kind

I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen. ↗

— Karl Urban

#almost #another #before #chosen #coming

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. ↗

— Lord Acton

#long #long term #losers #short #short term