#ge

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ↗

— John Locke

#knowledge #makes #materials #mind #only

Late middle age, he was coming to understand, was a time of life when everything was predictable and yet somehow you failed to see any of it coming. ↗

— Richard Russo

#age

People have to understand what my game is. It's not all about numbers. There's a bigger picture here. I don't create off the dribble. I rely on my teammates; my role is to set screens and get rebounds. ↗

— Rebecca Lobo

#bigger #bigger picture #create #dribble #game

Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status. ↗

— Gary Locke

#college #communities #every #get #go

One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that. ↗

— Gary Locke

#ask #books #campaigns #change #game

We have dozens and dozens and dozens of judicial nominees up there waiting and we have a court system that's crying out for more judges. ↗

— Joe Lockhart

#crying #dozens #judges #judicial #more

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war. ↗

— Belva Lockwood

#could #court #depend #fair #impartial

So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#before #effect #good #good sense #had

The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#cause #fact #forget #may #preferable

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change. ↗

— Rhonda Byrne

#change things #else #everything #feel #got