#lever

Heard, Seen, and Dunn et al. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#witty #witty

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke. ↗

— Mark Twain

#clever #exclamation-point #writing #writing-advice

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts. ↗

— Kelly Brook

#clever #people #think #you

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too. ↗

— Louise Brown

#battle #believe #classes #clever #daughters

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#favors #history #human #human history #natural

Clever tyrants are never punished. ↗

— Voltaire

#never #punished #tyrants

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#clever #dormant #erupt #ingenious #later

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#answered #ends #great #human #human thought

Swipe fees have increased steadily since the introduction of debit cards 20 years ago, when there were no swipe fees at all. Merchants can't negotiate or control them. They've tried, but they have no leverage against the big banks and issuers. So they get ignored. ↗

— Peter Welch

#ago #banks #big #cards #control

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#cleverness #come #down #green #heights