#lid

Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be. ↗

— Pepper Schwartz

#enough #expectations #general #going #holidays

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#ethics #evolution #first #first step #human

Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see that others are giving. The richest people, in particular, should be setting an example. ↗

— Peter Singer

#counterproductive #example #give #giving #likely

It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#advice #also #appalled #give #holidays

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

#fact #general #i #i think #idea

I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there. ↗

— Evan Rachel Wood

#billie #billie holiday #described #electric #electric guitar

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. ↗

— Philip Wylie

#change #citizen #delinquent #good #good teacher

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves? ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#among #bastards #fall #liberals #out