#log

I sincerely believe blogging can save America. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#believe #blogging #i #save #sincerely

We're investing record sums on buses and trains. We have a huge programme to encourage people to walk and cycle, and everyone up to and including the PM has been looking closely at how we can promote electric vehicles, hybrids, and other technologies. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#buses #closely #cycle #electric #encourage

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#dinner #full #garage #pail #progress

I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since. ↗

— Lou Henry Hoover

#ever #geology #herbert #herbert hoover #hoover

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#desert #dialogue #direction #essay #get

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it. ↗

— Horace

#clogged #down #drags #excess #mind

In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#aggression #been #biological #biological weapons #case

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist. ↗

— Charles Stross

#cosmic-sadist #death #everything #life #religion

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#general #human #ingenuity #me #seems

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible. ↗

— Fred Hoyle

#data #i #incredible #just #just because