#hip

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#because #confer #hated #hideous #impose

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#because #death #devour #doomed #fate

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#forgetting #i #men #strength #strong

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship. ↗

— Keri Russell

#hold #just #love #people #ready

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #arc #betray #between #career

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#been #born #easy #felt #got

The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#bible #both #concerning #creation #creator

Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years? ↗

— Paul Ryan

#change #college #different #during #find

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#change #demagoguery #emotions #envy #exploiting

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years? ↗

— Paul Ryan

#change #different #four #here #last