#firm

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#confirms #decision #every #exception #military

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#deity #i #one thing #practiced #thing

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#been #fiercest #firmest #flame #formed

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#consists #false #knowledge #negation #only

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#advantage #after #child #child labor #despite

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. ↗

— Confucius

#firm #modest #near #simple #virtue

I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people. ↗

— Dane Cook

#being #cheek #close #clubs #comedian