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The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#choice #government #labour #labour government #minds

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick. ↗

— Robert Powell

#carry #cases #does #found #hundred

Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms. ↗

— William Powell

#manufacturing #nanotechnology

I don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity. ↗

— Red Skelton

#age

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman. ↗

— J. F. Powers

#blood #body #bread #change #create

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. ↗

— Richard Powers

#big #big picture #connects #everything #get

We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand that we cannot be free if our food and its sources are controlled by someone else. The condition of the passive consumer of food is not a democratic condition. One reason to eat responsibly is to live free. (pg. 323, The Pleasures of Eating) ↗

— Wendell Berry

#freedom #art

When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#life #man #life

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted. ↗

— Richard Powers

#economy #eyes #makes #market #market economy

You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy. ↗

— Susan Powter

#damn #fat #great #healthy #love