#me

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#conflict #dissent #easier #issues #jokes

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#easy #had #having #japanese #once

Something that came as a shock to me is that we do not have a constitutional right to vote. And that's not just a fun little historical factoid. It actually has huge ramifications. It's the reason our system is so decentralized - in other words, chaotic. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#came #chaotic #constitutional #constitutional right #fun

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#comes #coverage #dying #event #focus

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud. ↗

— Boyle Roche

#bud #forming #him #i #i see

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#makes #others #people #self-interest #some

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#become #disguise #disguised #end #in the end

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#conceited #considerable #enough #envy #fortune

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#biggest #clever #cleverest #idiots #makes

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#ceases #certainty #doubt #doubts #entirely