#gis

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#back #biologists #capacity #collective #evolutionary

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders. ↗

— Larry Elder

#colonel #control #demands #further #gun

But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#box #create #did #done #esteem

Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take. ↗

— John Engler

#body #legislative #purest #redistricting #take

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#history #insisted #intersection #mills #proper

Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#around #assistance #bring #democracy #effectiveness

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing. ↗

— Barney Frank

#attention span #away #books #could #distraction

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. ↗

— Barney Frank

#boot #crack #damage #does #equivalent

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#design #how #intelligent #legislature #look

I'll sign anything except bad legislation. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#bad #except #i #legislation #sign