#ions

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#bound #degree #easily #enjoyments #every

Because he was always tremendously generated towards complete relationship with his women to the point where they ended up in one convoluted octopus mess of souls and tears and fellatio and hotel room schemes and rubbing in and out of cars and doors and great crises in the middle of the night... (p. 128) ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#promiscuity #relationships #relationship

In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties. ↗

— Harry Browne

#civil #civil liberties #country #existence #foreign

It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions. ↗

— Harry Browne

#been #believe #competent #decisions #long

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose. ↗

— Harry Browne

#anyone #buy #choose #given #job

I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions. ↗

— Bear Bryant

#end #hell #i #put #through

All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay. ↗

— James Buchan

#down #nuclear #nuclear power #power #should

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic. ↗

— James Buchan

#alliance #beings #climate #convenience #diplomacy

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. ↗

— James Buchan

#began #centuries #cities #corner #earth

All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#churches #contain #god #only #religions