#led

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#emotions #facts #inversely #knowledge #varies

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#down #failed #leadership #need #past

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#cannot #container #department #detection #devices

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#knowledge #must #observe #study #wisdom

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#iraq #islamic #significant #tangled #very

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#enemy #fallen #may #merely #reconciled

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#community #does #especially #fellow #fellow men

When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#cartoon characters #characters #like #looks #pull

I was very troubled, yes. Me and my brother both - we were troubled and troublemakers. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#brother #i #me #troubled #troublemakers

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#big #black #called #god #guy