#err

They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#chronic #defects #deprived #error #had

To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#alter #american #call #enhanced #equivalent

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#beyond #common #easily #identifiable #jews

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

#characteristics #correct #important #map #maps

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

#alone #between #found #linguistic #link

I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#am #appendix #believe #conception #conferred

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#after #between #black #black and white #board

As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#berry #chuck #chuck berry #different #formed

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#had #him #i #open #saw

It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#because #decisions #how #ill #impossible