#lit

To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#benefits #continue #honor #improve #long

It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#agree #certainly #cruel #currently #difficult

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#career #children #dependent #doors #education

I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do. ↗

— Beth Orton

#chord #embrace #i #i do #individuality

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it? ↗

— Beth Orton

#around #each #evolution #finds #generation

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. ↗

— George Orwell

#coincides #facts #foresee #future #grossly

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. ↗

— George Orwell

#folly #hatred #issues #itself #keeping

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. ↗

— George Orwell

#always #beings #demand #get #human

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. ↗

— George Orwell

#never #people #possess #responsibility #seldom

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. ↗

— George Orwell

#always #atmosphere #completely #damaging #forms