#ff

We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#between #childhoods #extremists #get #got

I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#academia #also #carpet #course #courtroom

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#eat #effort #every #except #federal

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#army #average #because #bright #business

I've matured since joining United, on and off the field. ↗

— Wayne Rooney

#i #joining #matured #off #on and off

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#death #only #same #suffering

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective. ↗

— Elihu Root

#effective #fittest #inevitably #law #led

When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot. ↗

— Stephen Root

#differently #every #five #funny #i

Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#another #between #competing #confederation #countries

We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales. ↗

— David Rose

#cell #cell phone #decade #due #initially