#erm

When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute. ↗

— Carson Daly

#big #flute #football #freshman #got

I don't understand some people, using biblical terms to criticize me when this is just a game. ↗

— Johnny Damon

#game #i #just #me #people

Minx,” he whispered before he left me to get dressed so that we could plan our new destiny. ↗

— Gwen Hayes

#lol-minx #supermegafoxyawesomehot #dreams

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#each #i #natural #natural selection #preserved

Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption. ↗

— Evan Davis

#assume #assumption #behaviour #behavioural #deviate

One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#billion #consider #days #dollars #eleven

Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed our nation. America's employers are afraid to invest in an economy racked with uncertainty over what Washington's next set of rules, regulations, mandates, and tax hikes will look like. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#america #bailouts #economy #employers #failed

Yes, the first job I had at the studio was Snow White. I don't like the term particularly, but I got stuck with the human characters. They just didn't have that many people who could draw humans. ↗

— Marc Davis

#could #draw #first #got #had

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#benefit #chance #could #credit #edit

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#decide #destroy #evil #fight #good