#lem

Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#audacity #been #gentlemen #had #i

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#bonds #books #elements #friendship #granted

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#genres #horror #illogical #problem #problems

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#also #assume #attention #aware #because

Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#concerns #element #energy #energy needs #environmental

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#being #centuries #civilized #discovery #exist

I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#been #drove #english #field #history

Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else! ↗

— Ron Livingston

#else #firing #happy #i #idea

There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn't mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#best #best way #carbon #cut #emissions

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#architecture #big #big city #captures #city