#lt

Well, you know, any defense force worth its salt has to be able to deal with uncertainty, has to be able to deal with events that we may not have planned for. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#any #deal #defense #events #force

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#fitting-in #health #life #life

I inherited a pound from my British uncle. I’d have rather gotten a dollar, because what do I want with an animal shelter?
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— Jarod Kintz

#animal-shelter #british #death #desire #die

I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down. ↗

— Suzy Parker

#believe #down #gold #gold standard #i

In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results. ↗

— Sean Parker

#did #elements #extremely #innovative #lot

The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture. ↗

— John Patrick

#culture #entrenched #market #people #target

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#enter #local #married #men #politics

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing. ↗

— John Schlesinger

#bad thing #been #cheek #felt #i

Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts. ↗

— Rod Parsley

#against #agenda #attempt #courts #culture

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#being #body #cheque #class #doing