#les

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year. ↗

— William Safire

#fighting #known #light #political #previously

You know how the Beatles broke off - they all did their solo projects and they came back together and they were even stronger! ↗

— Kelly Rowland

#beatles #broke #came #did #even

I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#been #blessed #ever #few #get

Our whole life is solving puzzles. ↗

— Erno Rubik

#our #puzzles #solving #whole

I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#climb #come #could #down #ever

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#apt #capitalism #embodied #exercise #fortunate

You know, you pick and choose your battles. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#choose #know #pick #pick and choose #you

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#account #fat #fat man #him #hippopotamus

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#demand #intellectual #man #natural #nevertheless

While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#balance #certain #challenges #conservatives #fiscal