#lit

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#common #could #different #different types #environment

I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#ashamed #background #either #feel #i

I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#assumption #because #been #english #her

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism. ↗

— Herbert Read

#equality #freedom #must #nationalism #new

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

#buddhism #catholic #could #mankind #masses

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there. ↗

— Maureen Reagan

#arrived #elect #equality #feel #i

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly. ↗

— Ron Reagan

#citing #frankly #get #hear #i

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. ↗

— Robert Redford

#art #honor #politics #putting #seductive

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. ↗

— Robert Redford

#because #conservatism #know #make #political

You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#because #handsome #hung #looks #present