#esp

You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately. ↗

— Chita Rivera

#immediately #lights #plug #put #respond

My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#america #debate #died #engage #family

Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#dan rather #especially #i #just #rather

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy. ↗

— Marie Curie

#been #career #could #easy #especially

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#deepest #give #help #keep #lives

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13. ↗

— Larry Elder

#crow #depression #during #father #great

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#artist #begins #explain #his #likes

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#community #does #especially #fellow #fellow men

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#cannot #contrary #country #damage #despite

Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the respectable Beltway variety and he will twist himself into a pretzel denying it. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#answer #any #ask #beltway #both